Sendmail has died
Steven W. Orr
steveo at syslang.net
Mon Sep 25 19:45:26 UTC 2006
On Monday, Sep 25th 2006 at 12:07 -0600, quoth Frank Cox:
=>I do this:
=>
=> su -c "/sbin/service sendmail restart"
=>Password:
=>Shutting down sm-client: [ OK ]
=>Shutting down sendmail: [ OK ]
=>Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
=>Starting sm-client: [ OK ]
=>
=>And then this:
=>/sbin/service sendmail status
=>/etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 324: /var/run/sendmail.pid: Permission denied
=>sendmail dead but subsys locked
=>
=>What's wrong?
Let me make one small suggestion. There are too many variables here. I
hate su unless it's run as su -.
For starters, su - and then run service sendmail stop
Then make sure that /var/run/sendmail.pid is really and truly gone. Then
run service sendmail start and tell us what happens.
After all that, if it works, please never use su the way you described
above. At the very least use su - -c etc...
Also one last question: Are you running selinux and could that be a cause
of your permission issues? i.e., is sendmail running as something other
than root in the first place?
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