From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 17: 7: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-107-187.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.107.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3493137B40F for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 17:06:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 168F066DC0; Wed, 22 May 2002 17:06:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 17:06:52 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Steven Lake Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange unexplained errors Message-ID: <20020522170652.C69636@xor.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5QAgd0e35j3NYeGe" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from raiden@shell.core.com on Tue, May 21, 2002 at 08:15:14PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --5QAgd0e35j3NYeGe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 08:15:14PM -0500, Steven Lake wrote: > HI all. I'm getting some rather strange errors on one of our > servers and I can't find the cause. Remote connections to it are fine, > but local connections are automatically refused on all ports. So > telneting to 127.0.0.1 or localhost renders "connection refused." Yet all > outside connections are fine. I can connect to it on any service port and > all services are responding normally. Including sendmail. When trying to > send mail via pine locally I get the error "Mail not sent. Sending error: > 421 4.3.0 collect: Cannot write ./dfg4M1". Aka connection refused. No, this is aka 'Cannot write a file'. Possibilities include ownership/permission problems and misconfiguration. Kris --5QAgd0e35j3NYeGe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE87DKcWry0BWjoQKURAmcvAKDey46CvjXwlsFIlPwiHBH9qBa0ngCfbk0Y P1OmO/Li2Mo0SODmLlo86i8= =U6c6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5QAgd0e35j3NYeGe-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message