SMPID vs. INPID

[Alden Levy]

>Scott Silva ssilva wrote on Wed May 9 00:17:19 IST 2007
>>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?

Yep.  But I'm going to double check, anyway.  I've done "chkconfig sendmail
off" a few times, but I'll try again.

However, when I start sendmail, I have 3 instances running:
# ps aux|grep sendmail
root     23940  0.0  0.0  9092 1888 ?        Ss   22:36   0:00 sendmail:
accepting connections

smmsp    23944  0.0  0.0  6940 1656 ?        Ss   22:36   0:00 sendmail:
Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
root     23949  0.0  0.0  8296 1780 ?        Ss   22:36   0:00 sendmail:
Queue runner at 00:15:00 for
/home/virtual/FILESYSTEMTEMPLATE/services/sendmail/mqueue

The first one doesn't stop when I service MailScanner stop, and I have to
issue a service sendmail stop in order to kill it.

Curiouser and curiouser... Is this good/bad/indifferent?  I've been seeing
this for a while, as this was what I had on my old server, but I don't
remember what was running when it was working properly.