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

[Ugo Bellavance]

Ken A wrote:
> 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.


http://www.sendmail.org/releases/8.13.7.html (see errata section), there
is a patch: http://sendmail.org/patches/queue.c.20060614


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