Update from RH8 to FC4 sendmail failures

[kpearsonxyz]

I get the following errors:
Shutting down sm-client: [FAILED]
Shutting down sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sm-client: [ OK ]

When restarting, sm-client always fails with /var/log/maillog entry that says:
sm-msp-queue[23066]: unable to write pid to /var/run/sm-client.pid: Permission denied

I've checked permissions and eveything looks fine but correct me if I'm wrong:
/var/run = drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Aug 14 16:05
/var/run/sm-client.pid = -rw-r--r-- 1 smmsp smmsp 0 Aug 14 16:05

Also, in maillog, there's this error every time an email is sent, or submitted via cgi:
sendmail[798]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(apache): can not chdir(/var/spool/mqueue/): Permission denied

Permission in /var/spool:
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Aug 11 06:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4096 Aug 11 07:15 ..
drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp 20480 Jul 20 04:21 clientmqueue
drwx------ 2 root apache 24576 Aug 14 16:22 mqueue

This is keeping this small-time server from accepting many emails.

[kpearsonxyz]

I solve the first error, badly, but soved, nonetheless. I added a line in /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail.

After /var/run/sm-client.pid is 'touched' I added:

chmod 666 /var/run/sm-client.pid

One down...

[wshawn]

The sendmail fail issue is a common one. The script has the order reversed for the shutdown. They should be in the same order as the start up....

[kpearsonxyz]

Solved:

The permission issue went away after changing a dnl to no dnl in submit.mc:

dnl FEATURE(`msp', `[127.0.0.1]')dnl

should not have the first dnl on it...

That solved a myriad of permission issues in the OS.