SMPID vs. INPID

[Scott Silva]

Alden Levy spake the following on 5/8/2007 3:09 PM:
> 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
> 
You do have sendmail disabled, don't you?


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