Double sendmail processes

[Arthur Sherman]

Hi Anthony,

I didn't find anything.

Here are starting services:
---
[root at ns1 init.d]# chkconfig --list | grep on
autofs          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
haldaemon       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
poprelayd       0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
readahead       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:on    6:off
syslog          0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
xinetd          0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
DCC             0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
netfs           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
sendmail        0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
mysqld          0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
dbrecover       0:off   1:on    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
bluequartz      0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
microcode_ctl   0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
saslauthd       0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
clamav-milter   0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
lm_sensors      0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
admserv         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
network         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
kudzu           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
iptables        0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
irqbalance      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
named           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
mdmonitor       0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
crond           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
httpd           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
dovecot         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
clamd           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
gpm             0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
readahead_early 0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:on    6:off
cpuspeed        0:off   1:on    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
messagebus      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
mdchk           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
sshd            0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
smartd          0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
cced.init       0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
rawdevices      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
---

Then I grepped for sendmail pattern:
---
[root at ns1 init.d]# grep sendmail *
clamav-milter:# description: clamav-milter is a daemon which hooks into
sendmail \
DCC:# dccm must be started before sendmail and stopped after sendmail to
avoid
DCC:#   complaints from sendmail
DCC:#   can be added to /etc/rc just before sendmail is started and a line
like
diskdump:SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
poprelayd:#             the pop-log-scrubber and sendmail relay db
population tool.
sendmail:#               MailScanner, and its associated copies of sendmail.
sendmail:# If you are using sendmail, Exim or Postfix, please try to avoid
editing
sendmail:MTA=sendmail
sendmail:INPID=/var/run/sendmail.in.pid
sendmail:OUTPID=/var/run/sendmail.out.pid
sendmail:SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail
sendmail:# Start both the sendmail processes
sendmail:      elif [ $MTA = 'sendmail' ]; then
sendmail:      elif [ $MTA = 'sendmail' ]; then
sendmail:       # Start just incoming sendmail
sendmail:       # Start just outgoing sendmail
sendmail:        elif [ $MTA = "sendmail" ]; then
sendmail:          #killproc sendmail 2>/dev/null
sendmail:        elif [ $MTA = "sendmail" ]; then
sendmail:          #killproc /usr/sbin/sendmail 2>/dev/null
sendmail:       if [ $MTA = "sendmail" ]; then
sendmail:          # Now the incoming sendmail
sendmail:          echo -n '         incoming sendmail: '
sendmail:          #pid=`ps ax | egrep '\[sendmail\]|sendmai[l]: accepting
connections'`
sendmail:          # Now the outgoing sendmail
sendmail:          echo -n '         outgoing sendmail: '
sendmail:          #pid=`ps ax | egrep '\[sendmail\]|sendmai[l]
-q[0-9]*[mhd]|sendmail: Queue runner' | grep -v grep`
---

Did I miss something?

Thanks!


Best,

--
Arthur Sherman

+972-52-4878851
CPTeam  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Anthony Peacock
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:05 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Double sendmail processes
> 
> Hi Arthur,
> 
> Check all of the files on the init directory to see if any of 
> the others 
> start sendmail as well.  Do you have a mailscanner script in there?
> 
> Arthur Sherman wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On my server, Mailscanner is started as /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail.
> > Every time the server is restarted, I see double sendmail 
> processes, i.e. 2
> > of /var/spool/clientmqueue, and 2 of /var/spool/mqueue.
> > After I manually restart Mailscanner, it starts only one pair.
> > 
> > Q1: why are double processes started?
> > Q2: how could I fix this?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > 
> > Best,
> > 
> > --
> > Arthur Sherman
> > 
> > +972-52-4878851
> > CPTeam 
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Anthony Peacock
> CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School
> WWW:    http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/
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