Re: 5.3-Beta7: sendmail script bug?

From: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:09:18 -0700
> # ./sendmail start
> Starting sendmail.
> 554 5.3.5 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 279: Unknown address family inet6 in 
> Family=option
> # ls /var/run/sendmail.pid
> ls: /var/run/sendmail.pid: No such file or directory
> # ./sendmail stop
> sendmail not running? (check /var/run/sendmail.pid).
> # ps awux | grep sendmail
> smmsp 881 0.0  8.4 3320 2356  ?? Is 2:44AM 0:00.02 sendmail: Queue 
> runner_at_00:30:00
>           for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail

That is the MSP queue running daemon, not the MTA.

> Apparently sendmail keeps running, even after being stopped.

Which script were you using (./ doesn't give the path)?  `make stop`
in /etc/mail/ will work as should `/etc/rc.sendmail stop`.

> Moreover, the sendmail script does not create a /var/run/sendmail.pid.

The MSP queue running daemon PID file is:

/var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid
Received on Sat Oct 23 2004 - 15:09:21 UTC

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