Re: [webmin-l] Vadmin Sendmail Question

[John H. <web...@ew...>]

Jamie Cameron wrote:
> On 15/Dec/2006 21:05 John Hinton wrote ..
>   
>> Jamie Cameron wrote:
>>     
>>> On 15/Dec/2006 19:45 John Hinton wrote ..
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> John Hinton wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> Just installed a new server... added Webmin and Virtualmin... the normal
>>>>> routine. I don't think I missed anything with my sendmail configuration
>>>>> as it does receive mail and at least forward mail. But for some reason
>>>>> Virtualmin doesn't think sendmail is running no matter what I try within
>>>>> Virtualmin, but yet at the same time the Sendmail module does think
>>>>> Sendmail is running.
>>>>>
>>>>> As this is a fresh install, this would be all the latest modules/packages.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> John Hinton
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> Hmmm... and Running Processes look normal with sendmail showing 
>>>> 'accepting connections'. saslauth is running, dovecot for imap and pop.
>>>> And also, the 'System and Server Status' module thinks sendmail isn't
>>>> running?
>>>>
>>>> This is CentOS 4.4. Maybe I just need to walk away from it and I'll
>>>>         
>> be
>>     
>>>> hit with a blinding moment of ... <we'll leave our the rest of this
>>>> saying> but I must be missing something stupid?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> This may be a bug in Virtualmin .. what exact error message is it giving
>>> you about Sendmail? Or is it just now showing it as running on the
>>> main page?
>>>
>>>  - Jamie
>>>   
>>>       
>> It's showing as not running on the main page of virtualmin and is 
>> showing as not running in the System and Server Status.. so I don't 
>> think this is exclusive to virtualmin.
>>     
>
> Check that in the Sendmail module, on the Module Config page, the
> 'Full path to sendmail pid files' is set correctly. It should be something
> like /var/run/sendmail.pid, or whatever is appropriate for your system.
>
>  - Jamie
>   

Yeah, it's right and every path I checked agreed with what Webmin 
entered automagically. It's late (or early) here in the eastern time 
zone. I'll do some digging in the logs on a couple of boxes tomorrow to 
see if I can find anything different.

Thanks,
John Hinton