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Date:  Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:50:15 +0200
From:  Arthur Sherman <arturs (at mark) netvision.net.il>
Subject:  [coba-e:07525] Double sendmail processes after server restart--SOLUTION
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <016501c6ed3c$2f142d70$3701a8c0@lapxp>
X-Mail-Count: 07525

Howdy,

I remember that some other people had that problem when after server restart
there were double sendmail processes.
This is a solution - at least it worked for me, so I decided to post it here
- for the archives :)


Best,

--
Arthur Sherman

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CPTeam  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces (at mark) lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces (at mark) lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Glenn Steen
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:37 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Double sendmail processes
> 
> On 10/10/06, Arthur Sherman <arturs (at mark) netvision.net.il> wrote:
> > Hi Jules,
> >
> > Sendmail is actually MailScanner. It was renamed for 
> compatibility with
> > other apps - old trick from some forum, which used to work before.
> >
> Did the trick include checking that you don't get multiple start and
> kill script "pointers" to the actual script (nor "dangling symlinks")
> from the actual runlevel-specific rc-script directories?
> 
> Check
> ls -l /etc/rc?.d/*|grep -i mail
> or possibly
> ls -l /etc/rc.d/r*/*|grep -i mail
> 
> might be that you are simply ruunning the same start script twice
> (although one would hope that starting the second one would simply
> fail... subsys lock or somesuch...), perhaps with different names...
> 
> -- 
> -- Glenn
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