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

[Steve Campbell]

Quoting Ken A <ka at pacific.net>:

> 
> 
> 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

Before you revert back to 8.13.6, try the RPMs at 

http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/mail/

They have worked for me and fixed a recent problem with the pid file, although,
I'm not sure it's the same. He has FC5 RPMs for 8.13.7-4. They are pretty close
to RH configurations (so far, I haven't had to change anything after upgrading
from RH (Tao & CentOS) rpms).


Steve Campbell

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