SMPID vs. INPID

[Alden Levy]

Scott Silva ssilva wrote on Tue May 8 21:08:43 IST 2007
>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.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> 	hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org	http://hugo.vanderkooij.org/
>>> 	    This message is using 100% recycled electrons. 
>> 
>> 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. 

But I did a diff on my init script and the RedHat script you sent earlier
today, and there is no difference.  Can it still be corrupted?

I was wondering if I should look elsewhere, or just try to reinstall.

Thanks,
Alden