From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 7 17:06:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3600F16A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 17:06:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from toxic.magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 255F043D39 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 17:06:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@magnesium.net) Received: by toxic.magnesium.net (Postfix, from userid 1070) id D8CA7DA83B; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 10:06:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 10:06:32 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Eric Crist Message-ID: <20040707170632.GB89192@toxic.magnesium.net> References: <3174.209.167.16.15.1089207132.squirrel@209.167.16.15> <003901c4643c$79dc1ba0$6501a8c0@Nomad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <003901c4643c$79dc1ba0$6501a8c0@Nomad> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. (Alternate) Public service Unix since 1986. cc: 'Steve Bertrand' cc: 'Gary Kline' cc: 'FreeBSD Mailing List' Subject: Re: Sendmail hand upon boot and restart X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 17:06:33 -0000 On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:07:11AM -0500, Eric Crist wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of > > Steve Bertrand > > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 8:32 AM > > To: Gary Kline > > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List > > Subject: Re: Sendmail hand upon boot and restart > > > > > > > > > > > > > After a year I'm finally upgrading DNS servers, and having > > > a bad time getting sendmail and dhcp to work. I may finally > > > have dhcp woking on ns1.thought.org. ping works and my > > > /var/log/maillog is filling up. But on tao.thought.org, sendmail > > > refuses to start. Can anybody help me ith this? > > > > First we need to create a baseline...Do you get any error > > messages, or does sendmail just appear to hang? Can you ping > > from this machine? Do you have a firewall setup on the box? > > Do you have 'sendmail_enable="YES"' in /etc/rc.conf? > > > > Do the following and perhaps post the output so we know what > > stage in the game you are at: > > > > # cat /etc/resolv.conf > > # dig freebsd.org > > # dig @204.101.251.2 freebsd.org > > > > Every time I have had sendmail problems, it has always come > > back to DNS failures. > > > > HTH, > > > > Steve > > > > > > > > I'm swsapping out my Linksys NIC between my old DNS server and the > > > new. Wih the 10/100 card in the old server, thinks work > > flwlessly; > > > in the new they don't. > > > > > > Any ideas on what I need to configure, and hw? > > > > > Something else that would really help would be to edit your > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file on the line that starts with LogLevel. It is > probably set to 9. Change this value to 20 or so, and from /etc/mail, > type make restart. > > View the end of your /var/log/maillog file by typing the following > command, and post these results to the list: > > # tail -n 50 /var/log/maillog > > This will help us see if there is anything going on. Adding the output > of 'date' at the time you ran the above command would help as well. > Right; my maillog was getting loaded with output (at LogLevel==15) but it said that mail to kline@tao was being denied. Prob'ly because dhcp esd not ruunning. more later, hopefully!!! gary > > -- Gary Kline Seattle BSD Users' Group (seabug) | kline@magnesium.net Thought Unlimited Org's Alternate Email Site http://www.magnesium.net/~kline To live is not a necessity; but to live honorably...is a necessity. -Kant