Double sendmail processes
Anthony Peacock
a.peacock at chime.ucl.ac.uk
Tue Oct 10 11:50:58 IST 2006
Hi Arthur,
Yes, after I sent my message I saw your reply to Jules.
Sorry, I don't have detailed experience with your OS, so I am out of
ideas now. I am sure someone else on this list will pop up sooner or
later...
Arthur Sherman wrote:
> Hi Anthony,
>
> It is the Mailscanner script that starts from rc.d. It has been renamed to
> 'sendmail' - several apps needed this, since it is CentOS based BlueQuartz
> appliance.
> So it is just what you say it should be.
>
> I am still wondering what would cause double sendmail processes...
>
>
> 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 11:55 AM
>> To: MailScanner discussion
>> Subject: Re: Double sendmail processes
>>
>> Hi Arthur,
>>
>> Someone who knows your OS better than I will probably be able
>> to help more.
>>
>> The standard mailscanner install creates a startup script for
>> mailscanner that also starts sendmail. In this instance you
>> would need
>> to stop sendmail starting as well.
>>
>> It looks like you are doing in the other way round, ie the sendmail
>> script starts mailscanner.
>>
>> Arthur Sherman wrote:
>>> 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/
>>>> "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples
>>>> then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an
>>>> idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then
>> each of us
>>>> will have two ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw
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>>
>> --
>> Anthony Peacock
>> CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School
>> WWW: http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/
>> "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples
>> then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an
>> idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us
>> will have two ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw
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>>
>
--
Anthony Peacock
CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School
WWW: http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples
then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an
idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us
will have two ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw
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