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

[Marc Lucke]

Sorry about the bottom quoting/top quoting email packages!  Guys, thanks a
lot for the information.  I'm really grateful.  I thought it was something
I'd done wrong!!!  Because everything is working I have decided to take
the easy way and simply wait a while until hopefully the default sendmail
package for FC5 is updated to solve the problem.

Marc


On Fri, July 28, 2006 9:07 am, Steve Campbell wrote:
> 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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