Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:26:05 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tao.thought.org is back..... Message-ID: <20061020182605.GA6770@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20061020120816.GA5512@gothmog.pc> 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> <20061020120816.GA5512@gothmog.pc>
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On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 03:08:16PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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? See appeneded. > > > 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. > This is what I'd thought. I have a script that adds to access, then calls a script to create access.db. Another script does both access and virtusertable. No other database or map files are touched. > What does your `/etc/mail/HOSTNAME.mc' file contain? > > What do the map files referenced by it contain? I'm surprised that these files are referenced:: FEATURE(access_db, `hash -o -T<TMPF> /etc/mail/access') FEATURE(mailertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable') FEATURE(virtusertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable') > > How did you perform the `reinitializations' mentioned above? > Well, for years I have kill -9'd sendmail and then restarted it. This by a csh alias. From the /etc/mail/Makefile, it looks like I can do the same thing more correctly by Makefile. > > 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. > I was not referring to anyone on this list! Sometimes I credit myself as the System Admin for thought.org, but the truth is that I'm barely a REAL system admin; that was the reason behind my quip. I don't even play a sysadmin on TV.... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix /* * several lines of mail being rejected yesterday afternoon */ 3929:Oct 19 13:08:56 sage sm-mta[8263]: k9JK8Jfs008260: makeconnection (tao.thought.org. [10.0.0.247]) failed: Connection refused by tao.thou ght.org. 3930:Oct 19 13:08:56 sage sm-mta[8263]: k9JK8Jfs008260: --- 050 <kline@thought.org>... Deferred: Connection refused by tao.thought.org. 3931:Oct 19 13:08:56 sage sm-mta[8263]: k9JK8Jfs008260: to=<kline@thought.org>, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=87298, rel ay=tao.thought.org. [10.0.0.247], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by tao.thought.org. 3944:Oct 19 13:11:29 sage sm-mta[8283]: k9JKAurL008281: makeconnection (tao.thought.org. [10.0.0.247]) failed: Connection refused by tao.thou ght.org. 3945:Oct 19 13:11:29 sage sm-mta[8283]: k9JKAurL008281: --- 050 <kline@thought.org>... 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