[csw-maintainers] Sendmail

[Philip Brown]

is the second one the sun one?

On Friday, August 13, 2010, Jeffery Small <jeff at cjsa.com> wrote:
> I have a question regarding the CSWsendmail package installed and running
> on my Solaris 10 SPARC system.
>
> When I reboot, I see a new message that indicates that a process cannot
> write to /opt/csw/var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid which is in use
> by another process.  When I check the processes running I see that in
> addition to the standard sendmail process:
>
>   root  690 sendmail: accepting connections
>
> there are two queue runners:
>
>   smmsp 614 sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
>   smmsp 680 sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /opt/csw/var/spool/clientmqueue
>
> The first one (614) writes to sm-client.pid and the second one cannot.
> Now, /var/spool/clientmqueue (and mqueue) are symlinks pointing to
> /opt/csw/var/spool/clientmqueue (and /opt/csw/var/spool/mqueue), so there
> is no need for the second process 680, and I'm concerned that running these
> two processes could actually cause problems.
>
> When I check the services running, I see the following relating to sendmail:
>
>   online         10:39:23 svc:/network/sendmail-client:default
>   online         10:39:24 svc:/network/smtp:cswsendmail
>
> Alex Moore, the old sendmail maintainer is retired.  Is anyone else
> managing this package or do you have any insights as to whether this
> situation represents a potential problem, and if so, where things got off
> track?  Beyond noticing the above, the mail system seems to be working OK.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Jeff
>
> C. Jeffery Small           CJSA LLC                       206-232-3338
> jeff at cjsa.com              7000 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island, WA  98040
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