Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 13:11:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bin/4407: sendmail 8.8.7 can't write sendmail.pid Message-ID: <199708281711.NAA17430@mph124.rh.psu.edu> Resent-Message-ID: <199708281720.KAA10500@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 4407
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: sendmail 8.8.7 can't write sendmail.pid
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Aug 28 10:20:00 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Matthew Hunt
>Organization:
None
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386
>Environment:
FreeBSD mph124.rh.psu.edu 2.2-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE #0: Wed Aug 20 11:06:06 EDT 1997 root@townhouse.dyn.ml.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/WOPR i386
>Description:
sendmail 8.8.7 can't write /var/run/sendmail.pid. If the file already
exists, it can write to it. But we clean /var/run at boot.
>How-To-Repeat:
Boot a recent 2.2-STABLE system and look at /var/log/messages.
>Fix:
The following patch to etc/rc. I have not tested it by rebooting, but
it is fairly trivial.
--- rc.orig Thu Aug 28 13:05:35 1997
+++ rc Thu Aug 28 13:07:03 1997
@@ -231,7 +231,8 @@
fi
if [ "X${sendmail_enable}" = X"YES" -a -r /etc/sendmail.cf ]; then
- echo -n ' sendmail'; /usr/sbin/sendmail ${sendmail_flags}
+ echo -n ' sendmail'; /usr/bin/touch /var/run/sendmail.pid
+ /usr/sbin/sendmail ${sendmail_flags}
fi
echo '.'
>Audit-Trail:
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