Obscure sendmail error after installing latest MS

[Kai Schaetzl]

I installed 4.51.6 today on a CentOS 4.3 system. So far everything seems 
to be fine, but I'm getting this error when starting the service:

incoming sendmail: Warning: Cannot use HostStatusDirectory = .hoststat: No 
such file or directory

So it comes from sendmail, but it's not clear why it happens. The 
directory indeed didn't exist in /var/spool/mqueue on CentOS, so I created 
it and I can see that sendmail uses it just fine and mail comes in. But 
the error doesn't go away. Also, I don't get this error when starting the 
sendmail service by its own, only when starting MailScanner (which then 
starts sendmail). The error isn't written to the mail log, only to the 
console. 
I think this is some permission/user-related race-condition error. Like MS 
doesn't start it with sufficient priviledges.

Any hints?

Kai

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