[MAILSCANNER] MS 4.45.4-1 installation help

[Alden Levy]

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:34:00 -0700, Dennis Willson <taz at TAZ-MANIA.COM> wrote:

>I've seen that before, While I'm not absolutely sure what it was, as I
remember it was that there was a previous copy of sendmail
>running that was not started by MailScanner and MailScanner wouldn't stop
it. So I did a "chkconfig sendmail off" and "service stop
>sendmail" to stop the previous sendmail and then started MailScanner
normally and it worked.
>
>This was on RedHat Linux. That seems to me what I did that fixed it.

>
>Dennis
>
>Alden Levy wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:57:39 -0700, Scott Silva <ssilva at SGVWATER.COM> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Alden Levy spake the following on 9/21/2005 4:26 PM:
>>>
>>>>Sorry for the duplicate messages.  I realized that I had written the
>>>>messages first from my mail program, then from the web interface, and--after
>>>>realizing that noone would get these messages--from the jiscmail interface.
>>>>
>>>>In any event, I still have one problem, but it still looks like it's
>>>>working, namely:
>>>>        incoming sendmail: head: /var/run/sendmail.in.pid: No such file or
>>>>directory
>>>>
>>>>There was no file named sendmail.in.pid, so I copied sendmail.pid over.
>>>>While the system works, when I check the status of MailScanner, I get:
>>>>Checking MailScanner daemons:
>>>>         MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>>>>         incoming sendmail:                                [FAILED]
>>>>         outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>>>>
>>>>However, I seem to have the same services running as I had this morning.  I
>>>>am able to send emails to accounts on this box from outside accounts, as
>>>>well as send emails from accounts on this box to accounts outside this box
>>>>(and, of course, emails between accounts on this box).
>>>>
>>>>Suggestions?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Alden
>>>
>>>Delete the copied pid, then stop MailScanner and run
>>>touch /var/run/sendmail.in.pid
>>>then restart MailScanner and see if that helps.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> I tried that. When I check service MailScanner status, I get:
>> Checking MailScanner daemons:
>>          MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>>          incoming sendmail:                                [FAILED]
>>          outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>>
>> And in my mail logs, I get:
>> Sep 21 20:35:42 engine sendmail[27938]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
>> opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
>> Sep 21 20:35:42 engine sendmail[27938]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP
socket
>> Sep 21 20:35:45 engine sendmail[28052]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
>> opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
>> Sep 21 20:35:45 engine sendmail[28052]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP
socket
>>
>> Any other suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks, again,
>> Alden
>>


No luck on the chkconfig sendmail off idea, either.  However, it DID manage
to delete(?) my sendmail.in.pid.

Thanks,
Alden

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