Question about start..

[Anthony Peacock]

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Hi,

Peter Peters wrote:
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> Marcel Blenkers wrote on 10-1-2006 20:22:
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>>i am using OpenSuse (SuSE10) with sendmail.
>> Sendmail version 8.13.4
>>
>>After a reboot of the System, within the Mail-Log i can find a line like:
>>
>>Jan 10 20:17:20 s23 sendmail-in[4084]: unable to write pid to 
>>/var/run/sendmail.pid: file in use by another process
>>
>>but, connects via port 25 are possible.
> 
> 
> In Suse it appears both the incoming sendmail and the queue processing
> sendmail want to write in /var/run/sendmail.pid. One of the two
> complains but both still work.

Yes, this was discussed last year (Oct/Nov check the archives).

I believe that Julian has fixed the MailScanner startup script now.  If
you see this problem, make sure you are using the latest version of the
script.


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>>After typing: rcMailScanner restart there is the following within the 
>>Maillog:
>>
>>Jan 10 20:19:07 s23 sendmail-client[4874]: starting daemon (8.13.4): 
>>persistent-queueing at 00:01:00
>>
>>
>>and no connects on port 25 are possible.
>>
>>Is there a way to change this behaviour?
> 
> 
> I haven't seen this before. I use /etc/init.d/MailScanner restart but
> rcMailScanner is just a link to that. So that should be no different.
> 
> I tried using rcMailScanner and I get this:
> Jan 11 10:06:57 netlx094 sendmail-in[5416]: starting daemon (8.12.10): SMTP
> Jan 11 10:06:57 netlx094 sendmail-client[5419]: starting daemon
> (8.12.10): persistent-queueing at 00:30:00
> Jan 11 10:06:57 netlx094 sendmail-out[5423]: starting daemon (8.12.10):
> queueing at 00:30:00
> Jan 11 10:06:57 netlx094 sendmail-out[5423]: unable to write
> /var/run/sendmail.pid: Permission denied
> 
> And I can connect to both localhost and de configured IP address for SMTP.
> 
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