SMPID vs. INPID

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Tue, 8 May 2007, Alden Levy wrote:

> Thanks for this.  Now, I'm really confused; the RedHat init script is
> identical to the one I'm using.
>
> Does anyone have an idea of where else I should look? (Quick recap:
> /var/run/sendmail.in.pid is not getting updated, so /etc/init.d/MailScanner
> status lists incoming sendmail as failed.  sm-client.pid looks fine,
> though.)

If you stop MailScanner the PID file should be gone. If not then you 
should remove it by hand and see if it happens to get recreated at 
startup.

Hugo.

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