SMPID vs. INPID

[Alden Levy]

I'm still scratching my head over this one.  Would someone with a Redhat
install please post the relevant lines of their MailScanner_app_init, so I
can compare it to mine?

>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
> 


Thanks,
Alden 


Alden Levy
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