From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 12 10:52:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA12918 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 10:52:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.com [209.25.4.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA12910 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 10:52:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id RAA04235; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 17:52:28 GMT Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 10:52:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Ian Vaudrey cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing sendmail sources after the fact, and a quick sendmail question In-Reply-To: <33C756D8.94223D9C@test.nemko.ltd.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Ian Vaudrey wrote: > I've built and installed the latest version (8.8.6) on my 2.2.2-RELEASE > box, but now when I start sendmail it logs "unable to write > /var/run/sendmail.pid" errors in the maillog. I've not changed any > permissions, and never saw this with 8.8.5. With 8.8.5 I had to create my own /var/run/sendmail.pid. sendmail wouldn't create one, but also gave no messages. Could be that in 8.8.6 they added the message and you haven't had a sendmail.pid all along. (I haven't installed .6 so I can't check the source, safefopen() in util.c is the function that should be creating it) Anyway, try creating /var/run/sendmail.pid yourself, 644 root.bin. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82