[Mimedefang] Adding mimedefang to sendmail's startup script

[Lisa Casey]

Hi,

I'm going to leave my earlier email intact at the bottom of this one because
I think it's related to this.

Since installing mimedefang on this FreeBSD box, when I reboot it there's
something screwy going on when sendmail starts up. It's got something to do
with startup scripts and either something I've failed to do or something
I've done incorrectly. Before installing mimedefang, sendmail started fine
on bootup. Now when I reboot the box I get this in /var/log/maillog:

Jul 31 17:19:20 mail sm-mta[399]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket:
daemon IPv4: cannot bind: Address al
ready in use
Jul 31 17:19:20 mail sm-mta[399]: daemon IPv4: problem creating SMTP socket
Jul 31 17:19:25 mail sm-mta[399]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket:
daemon IPv4: cannot bind: Address al
ready in use

and this in /var/log/messages:

Jul 31 17:19:30 mail sm-mta[399]: daemon IPv4: problem creating SMTP socket
Jul 31 17:19:35 mail sm-mta[399]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket:
daemon IPv4: cannot bind: Address al
ready in use
Jul 31 17:19:35 mail sm-mta[399]: daemon IPv4: problem creating SMTP socket
Jul 31 17:19:35 mail sm-mta[399]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket:
daemon IPv4: server SMTP socket wedged: exiting

It looks like perhaps sendmail is being started twice???

and these just repeat over and over. The only way to fix it is to log into
the box and manually stop sendmail, manually stop mimedefang, then manually
start mimedefang and manually start sendmail. Naturally, this isn't very
acceptable. If you folks could help me solve this issue I think I'ld have
sendmail and mimedefang working together nicely.

Thanks again,

Lisa Casey

> Hi Folks,
>
> Thanks for your responses to my earlier questions today. It was a big
> help. I have (hopefully) one more question for anyone here who is using
> Mimedefang on FreeBSD.
>
> I need to add mimedefang to sendmails startup script so that mimedefang
> will start before sendmail starts and stop after sendmail stops. On my
> Redhat box I edited  /etc/rc.d/sendmail and put /etc/init.d/mimedefang
> start just before the script starts sendmail and put
> /etc/init.d/mimedefang stop just after the script stops sendmail. Thus if
> I want to start sendmail, I type /etc/rc.d/sendmail start and get:
>
> [root at Raydeus-Dee init.d]# ./sendmail start
> Starting mimedefang-multiplexor:                            [  OK  ]
> Starting mimedefang:                                        [  OK  ]
> Starting sendmail: [  OK  ]
>
> and if I wish to stop sendmail, I type /etc/rc.d/sendmail stop and get:
>
> [root at Raydeus-Dee init.d]# ./sendmail stop
> Shutting down sendmail: [  OK  ]
> Shutting down mimedefang:                                   [  OK  ]
> Shutting down mimedefang-multiplexor:                       [  OK  ]
>
> I'm a bit confused on the FreeBSD box though. There is a
> /etc/rc.d/sendmail file but it is dissimiliar to the /etc/rc.d/sendmail
> file on the Redhat box and it's not apparent to me where this script
> starts and stops the sendmail daemon. There's also a /etc/rc.sendmail
> script but I think this script isn't being used because in it it says:
>
> # This script is used by /etc/rc at boot time to start sendmail.  It
> # is meant to be sendmail specific and not a generic script for all
> # MTAs.  It is only called by /etc/rc if the rc.conf mta_start_script is
> # set to /etc/rc.sendmail.  This provides the opportunity for other MTAs
> # to provide their own startup script.
>
> and my /etc/rc.conf doesn't mention using this startup script. In
> /etc/rc.conf the only lines relating to sendmail are:
>
> sendmail_enable="YES"
> sendmail_pidfile="/var/run/sendmail.pid"
> sendmail_flags="-L sm-mta -bd -q30m"
>
> Which file do I need to modify in FreeBSD so that mimedefang will start
> just before sendmail starts and stop just after sendmail stops?
> /etc/rc.d/sendmail or /etc/rc.sendmail? And if it is /etc/rc.d/sendmail
> could someone tell me just where in that file I should put the mimedefang
> stuff because, as I said, it is not apparent to me just where in that file
> sendmail is started and stopped.