Re: Sendmail has died

[Frank Cox <theatre sasktel net>]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:07:17 -0600
Frank Cox <theatre sasktel net> wrote:

> /sbin/service sendmail status
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 324: /var/run/sendmail.pid: Permission denied
> sendmail dead but subsys locked

Replying to my own post, I deleted /var/lock/subsys/sendmail and then restarted
sendmail again and it worked for several seconds and then stopped again with
the same status message "sendmail dead but subsys locked".

I have rebooted the computer and get the same problem.  There is nothing
in /var/log/maillog or /var/log/messages that's timestamped anywhere near when
sendmail stops.

This is all that I get in /var/log/maillog when I restart sendmail:

Sep 25 12:17:44 jeff sendmail[3000]: /etc/aliases: 76 aliases, longest 10
bytes, 765 bytes total Sep 25 12:17:44 jeff sendmail[3005]: starting daemon
(8.13.7): SMTP+queueing 01:00:00 Sep 25 12:17:44 jeff sm-msp-queue[3013]:
starting daemon (8.13.7): queueing 01:00:00

I get nothing in /var/log/messages at all.


 
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