Double sendmail processes

[Arthur Sherman]

Oh, I see.

Grepping through /etc/rc.* provided nothing.
I continue to investigate this issue - will post here if I find anything.

Thanks again!


Best,

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Glenn Steen
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 4:49 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Double sendmail processes
> 
> 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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