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From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
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Subject: Re: sendmail complains about being unable to write his pid file
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On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> Hmm, I re-changed /var/tmp to permissions bin.bin and couldn't
> reproduce the problem :-/

If sendmail.pid exists safefopen works.  Delete the existing
sendmail.pid and try again.

Dan
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