SMPID vs. INPID

[Scott Silva]

Alden Levy spake the following on 5/8/2007 7:39 PM:
>> 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.
> 
> 
Look in /etc/sysconfig for a MailScanner.rpmnew. Maybe you have an old version
in there.

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