Frank Cox wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:07:17 -0600 > Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> sendmail dead but subsys locked > > Third bit of weirdness. Maybe it's running after all now? If I > do /sbin/service sendmail status as a normal user it says > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 324: /var/run/sendmail.pid: Permission > denied sendmail dead but subsys locked You don't have permission to the sendmail.pid file, so the service command doesn't know what PID sendmail is. However, it does know there is a sendmail.pid file. It is probably interpreting the "Permission denied" as an inability to find the right process, leading to the "dead but sybsys locked" error. > If I do the same thing as root it says: > > > su -c "/sbin/service sendmail status" Password: > sendmail (pid 3013 3005) is running... As root you do have permission. > I know darn well that it wasn't running before, until I > deleted /var/lock/subsys/sendmail. Are you sure? Your first post also said "Permission denied". -- William Hooper
