Double sendmail processes

Arthur Sherman arturs at netvision.net.il
Tue Oct 10 10:47:54 IST 2006


Hi Jules,

Sendmail is actually MailScanner. It was renamed for compatibility with
other apps - old trick from some forum, which used to work before.


Best,

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Arthur Sherman

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> Subject: Re: Double sendmail processes
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> service sendmail stop
> service MailScanner stop
> chkconfig sendmail off
> chkconfig MailScanner on
> service MailScanner start
> 
> That will sort you out.
> 
> 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 
> >
> >   
> 
> Jules
> 
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