Subject: Bug#4085: /etc/init.d/sendmail does not stop and restart correctly

From: Michael Shields <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 21:55:58 +0000

Package: sendmail
Version: 8.7.5-4

After saying `/etc/init.d/sendmail stop', `/etc/init.d/sendmail start' will
not restart sendmail because it thinks it is already running.  I think this
is because /var/run/sendmail.pid isn't unlinked for some reason.

This is a serious problem; if you edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc, it will
conveniently rebuild sendmail.cf and aliases.db and offer to restart
sendmail, but instead it will kill your sendmail!

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Shields, CrossLink.