[CentOS] Cannot start sm-client on CentOS

Wed Mar 22 22:03:12 UTC 2006
Kai Schaetzl <maillists at conactive.com>

Alexander Dalloz wrote on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:27:05 +0100:

> Typical reason is you broke the permissions of the sendmail binary. 
> Check that it is 
>  
> $ ls -al /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail 
> -rwxr-sr-x  1 root smmsp 732248 21. Feb 2005 
> /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail

It's exactly like this. I didn't touch any of that at all. I replaced the 
sendmail.cf, though, with my own one from Suse systems with 8.12. 
Everything seemed to be working fine until I installed MailScanner which 
doesn't check for the existance of sm-client.pid and restarts sm-client 
each time while sendmail seems to only start it when the pid file is 
missing. I see if reverting to the old sendmail.cf fixes this. No, same 
problem, so my sendmail.cf isn't the problem. I also found that there was 
no .hoststat directory in the queue directory and sendmail barked about 
that as well. Is this normal for CentOS?

Kai

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