From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 20:44:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.1.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 079A337B427 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 20:44:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.core.com (shell.core.com [169.207.1.89]) by out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (8.12.3/8.11.4/1.7) with ESMTP id g4N3hvTN008065; Wed, 22 May 2002 22:43:57 -0500 Received: from localhost (raiden@localhost) by shell.core.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/1.3) with ESMTP id g4N3huK20264; Wed, 22 May 2002 22:43:56 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 22:43:56 -0500 (CDT) From: Steven Lake X-X-Sender: raiden@shell.core.com To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Steven Lake , Subject: Re: Strange unexplained errors In-Reply-To: <20020522170652.C69636@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Any idea how to fix it? I've looked and all my permissions look fine. That's one of the first things I thought of too. It seems only mail programs have issues writing to sendmail, not anything else. Plus root is not affected at all by this. That's what clued me into the permissions as well. Not unless I'm totally missing something here. On Wed, 22 May 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message