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

[Ken A]

Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> 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

It's easier to revert to 8.13.6 using rpm --oldpackage than to rebuild 
sendmail from source and patch. Maybe one of these days, but not this 
week! :-)

Ken A.
Pacific.Net


> 
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