From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 20 12:08:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 90EFA16A4CE for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:08:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FEBF43DA8 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:08:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.pc (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-2) with ESMTP id k9KC7ju5007311 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:07:49 +0300 Received: from gothmog.pc (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.pc (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k9KC8Lmp005581; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:08:22 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.pc (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id k9KC8Gbp005580; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:08:16 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:08:16 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20061020120816.GA5512@gothmog.pc> References: <20061018211258.GA1350@thought.org> <20061018215708.GB93083@gothmog.pc> <20061019001443.GC3342@thought.org> <20061019193854.GC11212@thought.org> <20061019214725.GA1683@gothmog.pc> <20061020051000.GA2419@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061020051000.GA2419@thought.org> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.57, required 5, AWL -0.17, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY 0.00) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tao.thought.org is back..... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:08:41 -0000 On 2006-10-19 22:10, Gary Kline wrote: >On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 12:47:25AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On 2006-10-19 12:38, Gary Kline 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.