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Subject: bin/4407: sendmail 8.8.7 can't write sendmail.pid
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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 '.'
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