sendmail dead but subsys locked

An Oracle 6.8 server cannot send mail. The service status is like this:

 [root@myserver]# service sendmail status
    sendmail dead but subsys locked
    sm-client (pid  349376) is running...

I removed /var/lock/subsys/sendmail, i killed the sendmail process and then i restarted the sendmail service. The new error code is like this:

[root@myserver subsys]# rm /var/lock/subsys/sendmail
  rm: remove regular empty file `/var/lock/subsys/sendmail'? yes
[root@myserver subsys]# kill -9 $(pidof sendmail)
[root@myserver subsys]# service sendmail start
  Starting sendmail:                                         [  OK  ]
[root@myserver subsys]# service sendmail status
  sendmail dead but subsys locked
  sm-client dead but pid file exists

Some people resolved this problem with stop postfix but this server does not have postfix.

How can I restart this service without restart the server?

Gefolge

Posted 2017-03-31T13:49:55.733

Reputation: 555

I restarted the sendmail service and the new status of sendmail like this:

sendmail dead but subsys locked sm-client (pid 217058) is running... – Gefolge – 2017-03-31T13:51:39.023

any luck it, i'm having same problem? – user1595858 – 2018-05-17T17:26:59.943

sendmail dead but subsys locked

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