Sendmail has died

[Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I do this:

 su -c "/sbin/service sendmail restart"
Password:
Shutting down sm-client:                                   [  OK  ]
Shutting down sendmail:                                    [  OK  ]
Starting sendmail:                                         [  OK  ]
Starting sm-client:                                        [  OK  ]

And then this:
/sbin/service sendmail status
/etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 324: /var/run/sendmail.pid: Permission denied
sendmail dead but subsys locked

What's wrong?

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