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Subject: Re: Where is Sendmail PID?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970410125210.8353C-100000@sys2.bloodstockwww.com> from "Patrick S. Gardella" at "Apr 10, 97 12:54:07 pm"
To: patrick@ChristianWord.org (Patrick S. Gardella)
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 09:03:26 +0900 (KST)
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Patrick S. Gardella writes:
> On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> It is running as a daemon.  Unless, the standard install runs it
> differently...but the sysconfig file file has the -bd option in sendmail
> flags.

Could it be that you're running a different version of sendmail?  The
standard place is /etc/sendmail.pid.  If it's not in either of these
places, are you sure that sendmail is really running?

Greg