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From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
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Subject: hosts.allow sendmail problems
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I originally posted this a few days ago.  I now have more information.

I'm finding this in my /var/log/maillog: 

sendmail[76681]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 86: twist_option: dup: 
Bad file descriptor 

Line 86 is the last line of this: 


# The rest of the daemons are protected.
ALL : ALL \
        : severity auth.info \
        : twist /bin/echo "You are not welcome to use %d from %h."

Any clues? 

$ uname -a FreeBSD cvsup.nz.freebsd.org 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-
STABLE #0: Mon Feb  5 22:45:35 NZDT 2001     
root@xeon.int.nz.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/ZEKE  i386 

new info:

I tracked this down to this line within /etc/hosts.allow:

#sendmail : ALL : allow

I had recently commented it out.  This situation gives the following 
results from a remote box:

# telnet mybox 25
Trying a.b.c.d...
Connected to mybox
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.

This produces the following entry in /var/log/maillog:

Mar  8 00:58:18 mybox sendmail[86520]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 
86: twist_option: dup: Bad file descriptor

Line 86 is:

# The rest of the daemons are protected.
ALL : ALL \
        : severity auth.info \
        : twist /bin/echo "You are not welcome to use %d from %h."

Is that expected behaviour?

-- 
Dan Langille
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