Still some mysteie about FC15

[Pasha R]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> On 06/15/2011 06:17 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> On 06/15/2011 03:45 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> I would like to know then why these show up as they do when their
>>> daemons are running/active....
>>>
>>> sendmail.service          loaded active exited
>>> sshd.service                 loaded active running
>> FWIW,  sendmail.service is under running status on my system.   Is
>> sendmail running on your system?  what does systemctl status
>> sendmail.service show?
>>
>> Rahul
>>
>
> sendmail.service - LSB: start and stop sendmail
> Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail)
> Active: active (exited) since Sat, 11 Jun 2011 19:58:34 +0800; 3 days ago
> Process: 3014 ExecReload=/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail reload (code=exited,
> status=0/SUCCESS)
> Process: 1062 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start (code=exited,
> status=0/SUCCESS)
> Main PID: 1237 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
> CGroup: name=systemd:/system/sendmail.service
> ├ 3023 sendmail: Queue runner at 01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmque...
> └ 3026 sendmail: accepting connections
>
> On 2 F15 systems....

Just a wild assumption: may be sendmail fork()'d and then parent
process exited, so from systemd point of view, it exited.