On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 12:52 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:47:15 -0400 (EDT) > William Hooper <whooperhsd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > 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". > > I'm sure. The reason why I was looking into it in the first place was because > I suddenly stopped getting email from some cron jobs that are supposed to > report successful completion and whatnot. > > -- > MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com > It might help if you step through the function that is called by /sbin/service status foo, first as an unpriviledged user and then as root. What does ps aux say? Has your /etc/aliases file been modified? If your cron jobs are running as root this may cause them to go awol. /etc/init.d/functions:status() status() { local base pid pid_file= # Test syntax. if [ "$#" = 0 ] ; then echo $"Usage: status [-p pidfile] {program}" return 1 fi if [ "$1" = "-p" ]; then pid_file=$2 shift 2 fi base=${1##*/} # First try "pidof" pid="$(__pids_pidof "$1")" if [ -n "$pid" ]; then echo $"${base} (pid $pid) is running..." return 0 fi # Next try "/var/run/*.pid" files [ -z "$pid_file" ] && pid_file=/var/run/${base}.pid if [ -f "$pid_file" ] ; then read pid < "$pid_file" if [ -n "$pid" ]; then echo $"${base} dead but pid file exists" return 1 fi fi # See if /var/lock/subsys/${base} exists if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/${base} ]; then echo $"${base} dead but subsys locked" return 2 fi echo $"${base} is stopped" return 3 } Cheers, Chris
