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From: Greg Lehey <grog>
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Subject: Re: Where is Sendmail PID?
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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 22:09:15 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970409212905.4997m-100000@localhost> from "Doug White" at Apr 9, 97 09:29:53 pm
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Doug White writes:
> 
> On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Patrick S. Gardella wrote:
> 
> > This may sound like a very silly question, but we can't find the sendmail 
> > pid!  It's not in /var/run and the find command cant find it.
> > 
> > Is this a new feature of 2.1.7?  Sendmail is definitely working!
> 
> I see it in /var/run/sendmail.pid...
> 
> gdi,ttyp2,/var/run,39>cat sendmail.pid
> 142
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m
> gdi,ttyp2,/var/run,40>ps ax | grep sendmail
>   142  ??  Is     0:00.28 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25 
> (sendmail)
> 
> (running 2.2.1)

Maybe this is a misunderstanding.  sendmail only writes a pid file
when it's running as a daemon (option -bd).  Run it any other way and
it works, but it deosn't create a pid file.

Greg