[Repost] Re: won't write sendmail.in.pid

[Phillip Udel]

You could try creating a new one.  
touch /var/run/sendmail.in.pid
then match the permissions with the out file.

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[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Marc Lucke
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [Repost] Re: won't write sendmail.in.pid

Hasn't anyone got any suggestions :-(

Marc Lucke wrote:
> I just upgraded to MailScanner-4.54.6-1 using the rpm and following all
> instructions at the end:
>
> service sendmail stop
> chkconfig sendmail off
> chkconfig --level 2345 MailScanner on
> service MailScanner start
>
> cd /etc/MailScanner
> upgrade_MailScanner_conf MailScanner.conf MailScanner.conf.rpmnew >
> MailScanner.new
> mv -f MailScanner.conf MailScanner.old
> mv -f MailScanner.new  MailScanner.conf
>
> cd /etc/MailScanner/reports/en
> upgrade_languages_conf languages.conf languages.conf.rpmnew >
> languages.new mv -f languages.conf languages.old
> mv -f languages.new  languages.conf
>
> I should have also noted that I had been running MailScanner for a long
> time with no problem.  This problem began "all of a sudden" a couple of
> days ago.
>
>
> Marc
>
> On Wed, July 26, 2006 11:45 am, Marc Lucke wrote:
>> CPU speed: PIII, 500MHz
>> Memory: 452MB
>> Operating System: Fedora Core 5, 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5
>> MailScanner version: 4.51.5-1
>> MTA version: sendmail-8.13.7-2.fc5.2 (RPM installed FC5)
>>
>> [blahblah~]# service MailScanner status
>> Checking MailScanner daemons:
>>          MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
> incoming sendmail: head: cannot open `/var/run/sendmail.in.pid'
>> for reading: No such file or directory
>>                                                            [FAILED]
>>          outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>>
>> Despite the above, I am receiving email and it is being filtered for
> spam as normal.  /var/run/sendmail.out.pid is written and works fine.
> /var/run/sendmail.in.pid does not exist at all - whether MailScanner is
> started or not.  INPID is defined as /var/run/sendmail.in.pid as per
> default.
>>
>> What could this be?
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