From nobody Wed Aug 20 02:27:09 1997 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA11001; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 02:27:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199708200927.CAA11001@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 02:27:09 -0700 (PDT) From: igor@zynaps.ru To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: sendmail 8.8.7 under 2.2-970816-RELENG unable to write /var/run/sendmail.pid X-Send-Pr-Version: www-1.0 >Number: 4344 >Category: bin >Synopsis: sendmail 8.8.7 under 2.2-970816-RELENG unable to write /var/run/sendmail.pid >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: steve >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Aug 20 02:30:04 PDT 1997 >Closed-Date: Wed Aug 20 13:00:30 PDT 1997 >Last-Modified: Wed Aug 20 13:06:26 PDT 1997 >Originator: Igor Vinokurov >Release: 2.2-970816-RELENG >Organization: JSB Inkombank >Environment: FreeBSD escape.cs.ibank.ru 2.2-970816-RELENG FreeBSD 2.2-970816-RELENG #0: Wed Aug 20 11:46:49 MSD 1997 igor@escape.cs.ibank.ru:/usr/src/sys/compile/ESCAPE i386 >Description: after starting sendmail daemon I see this in /var/log/maillog: Aug 20 10:51:46 escape sendmail[6739]: starting daemon (8.8.7): SMTP+queueing@00:30:00 Aug 20 10:51:46 escape sendmail[6739]: unable to write /var/run/sendmail.pid >How-To-Repeat: use `grep "unable to write" /var/log/maillog` on your machine :) >Fix: Mix from sendmail FAQ: sendmail checks if it has write access to the directory in which it wants to create a file without granting special privileges to 'root'. To have sendmail run properly, the directory /var/run should be owned by root and be writable by its owner. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: steve State-Changed-When: Wed Aug 20 13:00:30 PDT 1997 State-Changed-Why: Fix MFC by Peter Wemm into revision 1.26.2.3 of src/etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist. >Unformatted: