SMPID vs. INPID

[Scott Silva]

Alden Levy spake the following on 5/8/2007 12:16 PM:
> Hugo van der Kooij wrote on Tue May 8 20:09:32 IST 2007
>> 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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>> 	hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org	http://hugo.vanderkooij.org/
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> 
> Well, that was a mistake!  Now after removing the file by hand, and
> restarting, I run status and get:
> Checking MailScanner daemons:
>          MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
>          incoming sendmail: head: cannot open `/var/run/sendmail.in.pid' for
> reading: No such file or directory
>                                                            [FAILED]
>          outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
> 
> 
> Any other thoughts?
>  Thanks,
> Alden
> 
Your init script could be either damaged, or an old version.

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