After uninstall cannot chdir in mqueue.in

UxBoD uxbod at splatnix.net
Thu Jul 26 09:45:11 IST 2007


Well you normally change sendmail.m4 and then run a make which compiles it into the sendmail.mc.  But all is clear text so should have been found via the grep.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Steen" <glenn.steen at gmail.com>
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 9:27:37 AM (GMT) Europe/London
Subject: Re: After uninstall cannot chdir in mqueue.in

On 26/07/07, Ugo Bellavance <ugob at lubik.ca> wrote:
> Glenn Steen wrote:
> > On 25/07/07, Alex Neuman van der Hans <alex at nkpanama.com> wrote:
> >> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> >> > Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> >> >> Ugo Bellavance wrote on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:12:29 -0400:
> >> >>
> >> >>> Now, I get this error in logs... I can't seem to find why sendmail
> >> >>> is still looking for mqueue.in.
> >> >>
> >> >> Sure, that all old sendmail instances have been killed?
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > I've done a 'killall sendmail' and then a 'service sendmail start'
> >> > before posting...  problem is still there.
> >> >
> >> > Ugo
> >> >
> >>
> >> Have you tried a "palpatine-like" "wipe them out - all of them!" with
> >> killall -9? <ducks for cover> <gets pelted with rocks by people who know
> >> this is a *bad thing to do but you do it anyway from time to time*>
> >>
> > <pelt>-<pelt>
> > :-)
> >
> > I'm sure Ugo is capable of typing a good enough ps command to know if
> > they all died....
>
> Yes.
>
> > Did you remeber to "chkconfig MailScanner off"? And
>
> I removed the mailscanner rpm, so there is no MailScanner init script
> anymore.
>
> > "scoured" all sendmail configs for anything containging "mqueue.in"?
>
> Yes.  grep 'mqueue.in' -r /etc/ returns nothing.
>
> >
> > Cheers
>
Ok. And doing like Doc suggested didn't help either?
I'm certainly no Sendmail guru, but doesn't it keep some form of
"binary" state files etc around? That might not be in /etc, nor match
a simple grep?

Cheers
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