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Subject: bin/4344: sendmail 8.8.7 under 2.2-970816-RELENG unable to write /var/run/sendmail.pid
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>Number:         4344
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sendmail 8.8.7 under 2.2-970816-RELENG unable to write /var/run/sendmail.pid
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Aug 20 02:30:04 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Igor Vinokurov
>Organization:
JSB Inkombank
>Release:        2.2-970816-RELENG
>Environment:
FreeBSD escape.cs.ibank.ru 2.2-970816-RELENG FreeBSD 2.2-970816-RELENG
#0: Wed Aug 20 11:46:49 MSD 1997 igor@escape.cs.ibank.ru:/usr/src/sys/compile/ESCAPE i386
>Description:
after starting sendmail daemon I see this in /var/log/maillog:

Aug 20 10:51:46 escape sendmail[6739]: starting daemon (8.8.7): SMTP+queueing@00:30:00
Aug 20 10:51:46 escape sendmail[6739]: unable to write /var/run/sendmail.pid

>How-To-Repeat:
use `grep "unable to write" /var/log/maillog` on your machine :)

>Fix:
Mix from sendmail FAQ:

sendmail checks if it has write access to the directory in which
it wants to create a file without granting special privileges to
'root'. To have sendmail run properly, the directory /var/run
should be owned by root and be writable by its owner.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: