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Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 16:56:31 +0300 (MSK)
From: Dmitry Valdov <dv@kis.ru>
To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject: sendmail can't create PID file because of owner permission of /var/run
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Hello!

sendmail doesn't create sendmai.pid file
if /var/run directory owned by other than root. Default owner of /var/run in
2.2R is 'bin'. The problem appears in 2.1.5R too.
sendmail version is 8.8.5

Workaround:
chown root:bin /var/run


Dmitry.