From /etc/init.d/sendmail: stop() { ebegin "Stopping sendmail" killall ${KILL_OPTS} sendmail eend $? } All right, but when i trying to call "/etc/init.d/sendmail stop" script kills itself =) pivo apache2 # /etc/init.d/sendmail stop * Stopping sendmail ... * sendmail: caught SIGTERM, aborting Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. /etc/init.d/sendmail stop Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.0, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz Timestamp of tree: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r5, 2.5.1-r2 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0_rc4-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles/" LANG="ru_RU.utf8" LINGUAS="ru en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-portage/" USE="X aac acl acpi aim alsa apache2 berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cgi cli cracklib crypt dbus dri dvd dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo exif fam ffmpeg firefox fortran ftp gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv icq isdnlog jabber java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde kdehiddenvisibility kerberos mad midi mikmod mime mmx mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl php png pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline real reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd threads tiff timidity truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis win32codecs x86 xcomposite xine xml xorg xpm xv xvid zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0 seq-dummy" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="ru en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
This is odd, I can't reproduce this on 4 boxes I have with sendmail on it nor I ever encountered it. Maybe a timing issue? I'll change the script so that it uses /var/run/sendmail.pid next week anyway.
commited fix (you will have to re-emerge), please re-open if necessary.