Sendmail has died
Chris Linton-Ford
chris.lintonford at firebox.com
Tue Sep 26 18:06:59 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 12:52 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:47:15 -0400 (EDT)
> William Hooper <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > > I know darn well that it wasn't running before, until I
> > > deleted /var/lock/subsys/sendmail.
> >
> > Are you sure? Your first post also said "Permission denied".
>
> I'm sure. The reason why I was looking into it in the first place was because
> I suddenly stopped getting email from some cron jobs that are supposed to
> report successful completion and whatnot.
>
> --
> MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
>
It might help if you step through the function that is called
by /sbin/service status foo, first as an unpriviledged user and then as
root. What does ps aux say?
Has your /etc/aliases file been modified? If your cron jobs are running
as root this may cause them to go awol.
/etc/init.d/functions:status()
status() {
local base pid pid_file=
# Test syntax.
if [ "$#" = 0 ] ; then
echo $"Usage: status [-p pidfile] {program}"
return 1
fi
if [ "$1" = "-p" ]; then
pid_file=$2
shift 2
fi
base=${1##*/}
# First try "pidof"
pid="$(__pids_pidof "$1")"
if [ -n "$pid" ]; then
echo $"${base} (pid $pid) is running..."
return 0
fi
# Next try "/var/run/*.pid" files
[ -z "$pid_file" ] && pid_file=/var/run/${base}.pid
if [ -f "$pid_file" ] ; then
read pid < "$pid_file"
if [ -n "$pid" ]; then
echo $"${base} dead but pid file exists"
return 1
fi
fi
# See if /var/lock/subsys/${base} exists
if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/${base} ]; then
echo $"${base} dead but subsys locked"
return 2
fi
echo $"${base} is stopped"
return 3
}
Cheers,
Chris
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