diff --git a/profiles/extras/usr.sbin.sendmail b/profiles/extras/usr.sbin.sendmail
index a10c97b45..d4d1600ae 100644
--- a/profiles/extras/usr.sbin.sendmail
+++ b/profiles/extras/usr.sbin.sendmail
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
   /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail rmix,
   /var/lib/sendmail/statistics rwl,
   /var/run/sendmail.pid       rwl,
+  /var/run/sendmail/control   rw,
   /var/run/sm-client.pid      rwl,
   /var/run/utmp               rw,
   /var/spool/clientmqueue     r,