Mailscanner stopped, sendmail running...

[Muhammad Nauman]

>> Arthur Sherman wrote:
>> >> Have you read the documentation on tuning?
>> >>
>> >> http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#optimization_tips
>> >>
>> >
>> > Most links to instructions are broken...
>> >
>> Please can you re-test these pages. Hopefully they all work now. Please
>> let me know of any that are still broken.
>>
> Ah, it has risen from the dead:-). Still, perhaps we should aim at
> some creative cut'n'pasting, just to get it all into the wiki... Just
> so much of it ...:-)
>
> -- 
> -- Glenn
> email: glenn < dot > steen < at > gmail < dot > com
> work: glenn < dot > steen < at > ap1 < dot > se


I m still facing this problem - My sendmail suddenly gets stuck
I have done all the optimizations possible according to my server :
 http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#optimization_tips
but still i observe thing as follows:

[root at server ~]# sendmail -v nauman
test
.
nauman... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
nauman... Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
[root at server ~]# /etc/init.d/MailScanner stop
Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
         MailScanner:       [  OK  ]
         incoming sendmail: [  OK  ]
         outgoing sendmail: [  OK  ]
[root at server ~]# /etc/init.d/MailScanner status
Checking MailScanner daemons:
         MailScanner:       [FAILED]
         incoming sendmail: head: cannot open `/var/run/sendmail.in.pid' for 
reading: No such file or directory
[FAILED]
         outgoing sendmail: head: cannot open `/var/run/sendmail.out.pid' 
for reading: No such file or directory
[FAILED]
[root at server ~]# /etc/init.d/MailScanner stop
Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
         MailScanner:       [FAILED]
         incoming sendmail: [  OK  ]
         outgoing sendmail: [  OK  ]
[root at server ~]# /etc/init.d/sendmail status
sendmail (pid 32112 32107 32055 32013 32004 31610 31581 30306 30185 30095 
30002 29917 29863 29667 29520 29461 29399 29042 28938 28918 28263 28041 
27015 26655 26567 26536 26289 23442 22532 22246 22151 18507 14118) is 
running...
[root at server ~]# /etc/init.d/sendmail stop
Shutting down sendmail: [  OK  ]
Shutting down sm-client: [FAILED]
[root at server ~]# /etc/init.d/sendmail stop
Shutting down sendmail: [FAILED]

and after these all - when i restart my Mailscanner - it starts working fine 
again - But why do i have to do all this ??

how can this be fixed one and for all ?


Thanks and regards,
M.Nauman Habib
Network Engineer
ICT Department
WorldCALL Multimedia Pvt Ltd
16-S Gulberg II Lahore, Pakistan
Off: 92 (42) 5877051-55
Cell : 0321-4311830 


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