From: "Arthur Sherman" <arturs (at mark) netvision.net.il>
> 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
>
> +972-52-4878851
> 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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This is what I see when I do that on my servers:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Sep 19 12:06 /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K30MailScanner ->
../init.d/MailScanner
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Apr 3 2006 /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K30sendmail ->
../init.d/sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Sep 19 12:06 /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K30MailScanner ->
../init.d/MailScanner
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Apr 3 2006 /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K30sendmail ->
../init.d/sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Sep 19 12:07 /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/K30MailScanner ->
../init.d/MailScanner
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Sep 22 08:34 /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S80sendmail ->
../init.d/sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Sep 19 12:07 /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/K30MailScanner ->
../init.d/MailScanner
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Sep 22 08:34 /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S80sendmail ->
../init.d/sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Sep 19 12:07 /etc/rc.d/rc4.d/K30MailScanner ->
../init.d/MailScanner
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Sep 22 08:34 /etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S80sendmail ->
../init.d/sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Sep 19 12:07 /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/K30MailScanner ->
../init.d/MailScanner
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Sep 22 08:34 /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S80sendmail ->
../init.d/sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Sep 19 12:06 /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K30MailScanner ->
../init.d/MailScanner
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Apr 3 2006 /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K30sendmail ->
../init.d/sendmail
----
Ken Marcus
Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
http://www.precisionweb.net