Sendmail Starting

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 31.07.2004 schrieb Jake McHenry um 6:17:

> In my /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail file, this is what there was originally
> 
> start() {

>         if ! test -f /var/run/sm-client.pid ; then
>         echo -n $"Starting sm-client: "
>         touch /var/run/sm-client.pid
>         chown smmsp:smmsp /var/run/sm-client.pid
>         daemon --check sm-client /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q $SMQUEUE
>         RETVAL=$?
>         echo
>         [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/sm-client
>         fi

> I added the following line because the sm-client.pid file was being created and it's always empty, so when I shut sendmail
> down or restart it, it would fail, and I would have to kill manually. I added this right after the daemon sm-client line.

Hm, you then broke something. The daemon line quoted above fills the pid
file with the content.

>         ps waux | grep '^smmsp' | cut -d ' ' -f 5 > /var/run/sm-client.pid

> This worked, but could someone show me what your files contain. The way I did it probably isn't the best way to fix this.

$ cat /var/run/sm-client.pid
16419
/usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q 1h

$ cat /var/run/sendmail.pid
16410
/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h

> Jake McHenry

Alexander


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