From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 18 5:33:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C07937B407 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 05:33:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.4/8.11.2) id f5ICXPR07855; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 08:33:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (fcage [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.4/8.11.2av) with ESMTP id f5ICXKA07847; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 08:33:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20010618083131.02c109d0@192.168.0.12> X-Sender: mdtancsa@192.168.0.12 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 08:33:19 -0400 To: Thomas Stratmann , stable@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: sendmail does not return In-Reply-To: <3B2DF4B3.C156CB62@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The place where I have come across this is on DNS timeouts. e.g. if you have an IP address on an interface that has as its DNS a non reachable server (for whatever reason), sendmail will block until it gets an answer either way. Do all the PTR records for your IP addresses on the machine in question return right away ? ---Mike At 02:31 PM 6/18/2001 +0200, Thomas Stratmann wrote: >Hi everyone, > >have the weird problem that not anyone of sendmail, newaliases nor mailq >returns (neither does any one of them return any error message or >output). This includes the call of "sendmail -bd -q30m" out of /etc/rc >(the same applies if I do this by hand), so I have to hit ^C to continue >the boot process. It used to work fine the last time I booted (which >means I did not see any errors, and sendmail was up) although I did not >change any of my configuration in the mean time. > >Anyone an idea? > >Sincerely >Thomas Stratmann > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message