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From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To: Kenny Hanson <khanson@pdspc.com>
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On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Kenny Hanson wrote:
> /var/log/maillog, sendmail complains that it couldn't write
> /var/run/sendmail.pid.

Create an empty sendmail.pid, 644 root.bin

nce the file exists there is no more problem.


Dan
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