Here's something else strange:
ps waux | grep sendmail
root 18848 0.0 0.0 4776 648 pts/0 S+ 06:38 0:00 grep
sendmail
root 27931 0.0 0.1 9592 2680 ? Ss Jun04 0:00 sendmail:
accepting connections
I bet I get a failed on restarting sendmail:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart
[root (at mark) admin mail]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart
Shutting down sm-client: [FAILED]
Shutting down sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sm-client: [ OK ]
Sure enough. sm-client wasn't running.
ps waux | grep sendmail
root 18934 0.1 0.1 9524 2584 ? Ss 06:40 0:00 sendmail:
accepting connections
smmsp 18945 0.0 0.0 7188 1632 ? Ss 06:40 0:00 sendmail:
Queue runner@00:15:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
root 18951 0.0 0.0 4832 648 pts/0 S+ 06:40 0:00 grep
sendmail
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Dan Kriwitsky