RE: [SLUG] Sendmail SNAFU / Postfix fixed

From: Stephen Ames (sames@managedwebservices.com)
Date: Mon Jul 12 2004 - 15:09:29 EDT

Service sendmail status responds with "sendmail is stopped" and ps responds
with:

"5016 pts/0 S 0:00 grep sendmail"

So it looks like it is not running. Does anybody have any idea then how the
log can be getting sendmail entries?

Thanks,

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Eben King
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 2:26 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Sendmail SNAFU / Postfix fixed

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Stephen Ames wrote:

> I checked /etc/init.d/sendmail status and it reports being down as
> expected. So if it is down, how can it show up in today's log? Can
> multiple instances of sendmail be running on a system? How can I
> verify this?

service sendmail status

or

ps x | grep '[s]endmail' 

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