5.3-Beta7: sendmail script bug?
Gregory Neil Shapiro
gshapiro at freebsd.org
Sat Oct 23 10:09:21 PDT 2004
> # ./sendmail start
> Starting sendmail.
> 554 5.3.5 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 279: Unknown address family inet6 in
> Family=option
> # ls /var/run/sendmail.pid
> ls: /var/run/sendmail.pid: No such file or directory
> # ./sendmail stop
> sendmail not running? (check /var/run/sendmail.pid).
> # ps awux | grep sendmail
> smmsp 881 0.0 8.4 3320 2356 ?? Is 2:44AM 0:00.02 sendmail: Queue
> runner at 00:30:00
> for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail
That is the MSP queue running daemon, not the MTA.
> Apparently sendmail keeps running, even after being stopped.
Which script were you using (./ doesn't give the path)? `make stop`
in /etc/mail/ will work as should `/etc/rc.sendmail stop`.
> Moreover, the sendmail script does not create a /var/run/sendmail.pid.
The MSP queue running daemon PID file is:
/var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid
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