Double sendmail processes
Arthur Sherman
arturs at netvision.net.il
Wed Oct 11 12:55:35 IST 2006
Hope so.
Thanks, Anthony!
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 12:51 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Double sendmail processes
>
> 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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> >>>>
> >>>> Before posting, read http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting
> >>>>
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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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> >>
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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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