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So what processes are running? On my long-established RedHat 7.2 machine,
here's what I get:
<p>[root@verbose root]# ps auxw | grep sendmail
<br>smmsp 28733 0.0 0.0 5188
324 ? S Aug16
0:00 sendmail: Queue runner@00:15:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
<br>root 28734 0.0 0.0 5284
324 ? S Aug16
0:00 sendmail: Queue runner@00:05:00 for /var/spool/mqueue
<br>root 28737 0.0 0.1 5376
608 ? S Aug16
3:05 sendmail: accepting connections
<br>root 11042 0.0 0.1 3572
536 pts/0 S 08:57 0:00
grep sendmail
<p>You'll see exactly three actual sendmail processes. One is the standard
Queue runner for /var/spool/mqueue, which MailScanner has always handled.
One is the optional Queue runner for /var/spool/clientmqueue. I'm not entirely
sure when this is needed, but Julian told me how to manually start it some
months back, and now it's included in MailScanner by default. One is the
process to accept incoming mail.
<p>I can't tell you how to get the same results in RedHat 9, because ps
doesn't seem to work the same way. There I just get this:
<p>[root@vanquish MailScanner]# ps auxw | grep sendmail
<br>root 3637 0.0 0.4 5924
1188 ? S Aug26
0:00 [sendmail]
<br>smmsp 3642 0.0 0.3 5712
968 ? S Aug26
0:00 [sendmail]
<br>root 3648 0.0 0.3 5808
972 ? S Aug26
0:00 [sendmail]
<br>root 6697 0.0 0.0 1476
236 pts/0 R 09:05 0:00
grep sendmail
<p>I suspect that I have the same three sendmail processes running, but
I can't tell for sure. I note that in both cases, two are owned by root
and one my smmsp.
<p>MailScanner 4 has been *much* less problem for me than 3 was. In your
shoes, I might unplug the server, delete every trace of MailScanner I could
find and install the latest stable version, but I sure wouldn't go back
to anything older than that.
<p>Van
<br>
<p>Vernon Webb wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>
<p><font size=-1>> I wouldn't advise anyone to install 3, I don't support
it any more.</font>
<br><font size=-1>> Thousands and thousands of people have installed 4
quickly and successfully.</font>
<p><font size=-1>That all nice and well, but it's not working for me. Glad
to know it works for some one else.</font>
<p><font size=-1>I have tried installing and reinstalling and no success.
I can get the incoming scanned but the out going is not working. When I
start MailScanner it will not start Sendmail, I actually have to start
Sendmail manually so that out going mail will go out and those are not
being proceeded by MailScanner at all. I have attempted to install the
source but couldn't seem to figure it out.</font></blockquote>
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