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

[Ken A]

This is a known (regression) bug in sendmail 8.13.7
http://sendmail.org/releases/8.13.7.html
We've reverted to 8.13.6, which doesn't have this trouble.
Ken
Pacific.Net

Marc Lucke wrote:
> 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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