Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 12:54:07 -0400 (EDT) From: "Patrick S. Gardella" <patrick@ChristianWord.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is Sendmail PID? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970410125210.8353C-100000@sys2.bloodstockwww.com> In-Reply-To: <199704100509.WAA15586@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > Doug White writes: > > > > On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Patrick S. Gardella wrote: > > > > > This may sound like a very silly question, but we can't find the sendmail > > > pid! It's not in /var/run and the find command cant find it. > > > > > > Is this a new feature of 2.1.7? Sendmail is definitely working! > > > > I see it in /var/run/sendmail.pid... > > > > gdi,ttyp2,/var/run,39>cat sendmail.pid > > 142 > > /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m > > gdi,ttyp2,/var/run,40>ps ax | grep sendmail > > 142 ?? Is 0:00.28 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25 > > (sendmail) > > > > (running 2.2.1) > > Maybe this is a misunderstanding. sendmail only writes a pid file > when it's running as a daemon (option -bd). Run it any other way and > it works, but it deosn't create a pid file. It is running as a daemon. Unless, the standard install runs it differently...but the sysconfig file file has the -bd option in sendmail flags. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Patrick S. Gardella Webmaster - Christian Word Ministries | | | |Work: Patrick@ChristianWord.org | |Home: PGardella@geocities.com PGP Key ID 0x570CBD5D | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
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