On Tue, Jan 2, 2007, Jim Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>>Jim Douglas wrote: >>>>I noticed these errors in my dbmail.err file after restarting... >>>> >>>>FATAL File [/var/run/dbmail/dbmail-imapd.pid] exists and process id >>>>[4087] is running >>>>FATAL File [/var/run/dbmail/dbmail-lmtpd.pid] exists and process id >>>>[4084] is running. >>> >>>Wild guess: >>> >>>Your server rebooted/imapd crashed wihtout cleaning up the .pid files. At >>>next startup it notices that the .pid files still exists and overwrites >>>them. >>> >>>Tommi > > I get this from stopping/restarting postfix/dbmail.. > When I stop dbmail, there's no pid file ine the directory specified. > > ???
Jim, when you stop the process normally it cleans up its pid files. When you kill the process and/or the machine, the pid files cannot be cleaned up. When DBMail starts up again, it looks to see if there are pid files, and if so, if there is a process at the same ID as indicated by the pid files. Aaron _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
