Double sendmail processes

[Glenn Steen]

On 11/10/06, Arthur Sherman <arturs at netvision.net.il> wrote:
> Bingo!

Sad to be dampening your enthusiasm Arther.... Look below.
>
> Output shows:
> [root at ns1 log]# ls -l /etc/rc?.d/*|grep -i mail
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  18 May 25 23:10 /etc/rc0.d/K30sendmail ->
> ../init.d/sendmail
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  18 May 25 23:10 /etc/rc1.d/K30sendmail ->
> ../init.d/sendmail
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  18 Oct 10 02:56 /etc/rc2.d/S80sendmail ->
> ../init.d/sendmail
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  18 Oct 10 02:56 /etc/rc3.d/S80sendmail ->
> ../init.d/sendmail
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  18 Oct 10 02:56 /etc/rc4.d/S80sendmail ->
> ../init.d/sendmail
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  18 Oct 10 02:56 /etc/rc5.d/S80sendmail ->
> ../init.d/sendmail
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  18 May 25 23:10 /etc/rc6.d/K30sendmail ->
> ../init.d/sendmail
>
> Shall I remove them?
>
No, that would not be that great:-). Those look quite normal to me,
and removing them would make them not "respond correctly" to runleve
changes... What I was hoping for would've been more of the form:
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  18 Oct 10 02:56 /etc/rc5.d/S80sendmail ->
../init.d/sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  18 Oct 10 02:56 /etc/rc5.d/S85sendmail ->
../init.d/sendmail
... That is, more than one symlink to the same script. No luck with that:-(.
What you have above shouldn't be touched manually (you manage it via chkconfig).

A "tangenting idea" is that you should look through the other bootup
rc-scripts, like /etc/rc.local (grep through /etc/rc.* for sendmail
perhaps).
Since the "doubles" happen upon reboot, it kind of must be something
related to those:-). ... Or perhaps some opportunistic cron-job? Not
that likely...

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