Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:08:16 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tao.thought.org is back..... Message-ID: <20061020120816.GA5512@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <20061020051000.GA2419@thought.org> References: <20061018211258.GA1350@thought.org> <20061018215708.GB93083@gothmog.pc> <20061019001443.GC3342@thought.org> <EA1428C1-A621-4DC4-85DD-02C208EBF62C@mac.com> <20061019193854.GC11212@thought.org> <20061019214725.GA1683@gothmog.pc> <20061020051000.GA2419@thought.org>
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On 2006-10-19 22:10, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: >On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 12:47:25AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On 2006-10-19 12:38, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: >>>On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 05:22:44PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > [[ ... ]] > >>> I see an example as the equivalent of 10K words. >> >> I'll let Chuck write what he had in mind :) >> >>> Is there any way of testing this after I have set up my table >>> entries? In other words, how do I re-initialize things without >>> having to (ugh) *reboot*. >> >> If you modify `mailertable' in `/etc/mail', you should be able to run: >> >> # cd /etc/mail >> # make mailertable.db >> >> to update it. A reboot is not necessary for Sendmail changes. > > For unknown reasons, mail started to be "refused" from my mailserver > just as I was heading out this afternoon. It may have been a bad DHCP > lease, ?? It's hard to guess without seeing the log file entries for the rejected messages. Can you _please_ show us the logs, instead of describing the results in broad terms? > Anyway, a make restart and other reinitializations didn't seem to > work, so my next guess is that I didn't restart my maps, databases > correctly. Maps are not 'restarted'. They are parsed to *.db files. What does your `/etc/mail/HOSTNAME.mc' file contain? What do the map files referenced by it contain? How did you perform the `reinitializations' mentioned above? > If I ever have enough courage to test these theories in the next 95 > years, I'll know. Meanwhile, I've got to beg help from some REAL > system admins here. I don't like 'REAL' in the above lines, but you are free to use whatever you are more comfortable with.
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