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From: danish on 11 Mar 2006 01:47 hello everyone.... i know sm-client startup problems have been asked a lot in this group and i also did a lot of reading though this group which gave me a lot of hints as to whats going..but still being a newbie ima bit hesitant doing all this without anyones help..so here i go.. i have fedora 3 installed and sendmail-8.13.1-2..... when i restart send mail it gives me the following errors # /etc/init.d/sendmail restart Shutting down sendmail: [ OK ] Shutting down sm-client: [FAILED] Starting sendmail: [ OK ] Starting sm-client: [ OK ] from /var/log/maillog i found out that sendmail[5616]: unable to write pid to /var/run/sendmail.pid: Permission denied can anyone plz advise on what i have to do to correct it out thanks, Danish
From: danish on 11 Mar 2006 02:09 danish wrote: > hello everyone.... > > i know sm-client startup problems have been asked a lot in this group > and i also did a lot of reading though this group which gave me a lot > of hints as to whats going..but still being a newbie ima bit hesitant > doing all this without anyones help..so here i go.. > > i have fedora 3 installed and sendmail-8.13.1-2..... > > when i restart send mail it gives me the following errors > # /etc/init.d/sendmail restart > Shutting down sendmail: [ OK ] > Shutting down sm-client: [FAILED] > Starting sendmail: [ OK ] > Starting sm-client: [ OK ] > > from /var/log/maillog i found out that sendmail[5616]: unable to write > pid to /var/run/sendmail.pid: Permission denied > > can anyone plz advise on what i have to do to correct it out > > thanks, > Danish adding to the earlier information... i created a sendmail.pid file in /var/run/ by doing vi...and also removed sm-client.pid..rm -f sm-client...and then did a restart the sendmail.pid file was removed automatically...also doing ls -l on /run gave me ....drwxr-xr-x 15 apache apache 4096 Mar 11 12:33 run and ls -l /var/run/sm-client.pid gave me... .... -rw-r--r-- 1 smmsp smmsp 50 Mar 11 12:33 sm-client.pid
From: base60 on 11 Mar 2006 12:25 danish wrote: > hello everyone.... > > i know sm-client startup problems have been asked a lot in this group > and i also did a lot of reading though this group which gave me a lot > of hints as to whats going..but still being a newbie ima bit hesitant > doing all this without anyones help..so here i go.. > > i have fedora 3 installed and sendmail-8.13.1-2..... > > when i restart send mail it gives me the following errors > # /etc/init.d/sendmail restart > Shutting down sendmail: [ OK ] > Shutting down sm-client: [FAILED] > Starting sendmail: [ OK ] > Starting sm-client: [ OK ] > > from /var/log/maillog i found out that sendmail[5616]: unable to write > pid to /var/run/sendmail.pid: Permission denied > > can anyone plz advise on what i have to do to correct it out > > thanks, > Danish > Pretty much self-explanatory: check the permissions on /var/run and look at the ID your trying to write into it with. If there is a mismatch, consider relocation of the PID file or your setup.
From: danish on 13 Mar 2006 00:51
base60 wrote: > danish wrote: > > hello everyone.... > > > > i know sm-client startup problems have been asked a lot in this group > > and i also did a lot of reading though this group which gave me a lot > > of hints as to whats going..but still being a newbie ima bit hesitant > > doing all this without anyones help..so here i go.. > > > > i have fedora 3 installed and sendmail-8.13.1-2..... > > > > when i restart send mail it gives me the following errors > > # /etc/init.d/sendmail restart > > Shutting down sendmail: [ OK ] > > Shutting down sm-client: [FAILED] > > Starting sendmail: [ OK ] > > Starting sm-client: [ OK ] > > > > from /var/log/maillog i found out that sendmail[5616]: unable to write > > pid to /var/run/sendmail.pid: Permission denied > > > > can anyone plz advise on what i have to do to correct it out > > > > thanks, > > Danish > > > > Pretty much self-explanatory: check the permissions on /var/run and > look at the ID your trying to write into it with. > > If there is a mismatch, consider relocation of the PID file or your > setup. Yes thank you..it was a problem of permissions...thank you Danish |