SMPID vs. INPID

[Alden Levy]

I had a problem a long time ago on my old server that never got solved;
unfortunately, it's reared it's ugly head on the new server (I had to copy
over a file from the old server), and I'd like to put it to bed for good.

Basically, when I start MS, all works well, but when I check status, I get
an error 
# service MailScanner status
Checking MailScanner daemons:
         MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
         incoming sendmail:                                [ FAIL ]
         outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]

However, it works fine as it is.  In order to get rid of the fail, though,
I've been updating sendmail.in.pid with the proper pid, and everything
works.

I finally had a few minutes to track down the issue, and it seems that
something (I did something??) confused SMPID and INPID in
MailScanner_app_init.

The relevant code is:
In StartInSendmail:
      elif [ $MTA = 'sendmail' ]; then
        /usr/bin/newaliases > /dev/null 2>&1
        if test -x /usr/bin/make -a -f /etc/mail/Makefile ; then
            make -C /etc/mail -s
        else
            for i in virtusertable access domaintable mailertable ; do
                if [ -f /etc/mail/$i ] ; then
                    makemap hash /etc/mail/$i < /etc/mail/$i
                fi
            done
        fi
        $SENDMAIL -bd -OPrivacyOptions=noetrn \
                      -ODeliveryMode=queueonly \
                      -OQueueDirectory=$INQDIR \
                      -OPidFile=$INPID
        touch /var/run/sm-client.pid
        chown $MSPUSER:$MSPGROUP /var/run/sm-client.pid 2>/dev/null
        $SENDMAIL -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q15m -OPidFile=$SMPID 2>/dev/null
        success
        echo
 
And in status:
  status)
        # Work out if all of MailScanner is running
        echo    'Checking MailScanner daemons:'
        echo -n '         MailScanner:       '
        pid=`pidofproc MailScanner`
        if [ -z "$pid" ] ; then failure; else success; fi
        echo
        if [ $MTA = "sendmail" ]; then
          # Now the incoming sendmail
          echo -n '         incoming sendmail: '
          pid=`head -1 $INPID`
          alive=`ps ax | awk '{ print $1 }' | grep '^'$pid'$'`
          #pid=`ps ax | egrep '\[sendmail\]|sendmai[l]: accepting
connections'`
          if [ -z "$alive" ] ; then failure; else success; fi
          echo
 

Please note that both $INPID and $SMPID (as well as /var/run/sm-client.pid)
are referenced in StartInSendmail and only $INPID is checked in status.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

For the record, I am running MS 4.68.9-1 and SA 3.18 on CentOS 4.4.

Thanks,
Alden

Alden Levy
Engine No. 9, Inc.
130 W. 57th Street, Suite 2F
New York, NY 10019
(212) 981-1122
(212) 504-9598 fax