From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 10 02:58:19 2003 Return-Path: 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 B13AF37B401 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 02:58:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postit.adam.com.au (postit.adam.com.au [203.2.124.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9805F43FAF for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 02:58:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bastill@adam.com.au) Received: from lightning.adam.com.au (lightning.adam.com.au [203.2.124.20]) by postit.adam.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h3A9wHhh029636 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:28:18 +0930 (CST) Received: (qmail 1989 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2003 09:58:13 -0000 Received: from 202-6-151-109.ip.adam.com.au (HELO adam.com.au) (202.6.151.109) by eden.adam.com.au with RC4-MD5 encrypted SMTP; 10 Apr 2003 09:58:13 -0000 Message-ID: <3E95404A.3020003@adam.com.au> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:28:34 +0930 From: Brian Astill User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas References: <1049333119.3e8b8d7f0c73b@webmail.adam.com.au> <1049432553.3e8d11e923925@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030404113740.T20523@gothmog> <1049529621.3e8e8d153e24f@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030405221114.GA2419@gothmog.gr> <1049637546.3e9032aae7488@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030406225854.GB9824@gothmog.gr> <3E942B3E.20309@adam.com.au> <20030409143657.GA61280@ei.bzerk.org> <3E94A79B.5020205@adam.com.au> <20030409234339.GC33664@gothmog.gr> <3E94C288.5070707@adam.com.au> <20030410112000.I5505@gothmog> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 09:58:20 -0000 Giorgos Keramidas wrote >Hmmm, this is usually an indication of DNS problems. > Can only agree - but where is my error ? A little while ago Clause Assmann asked me to conduct a couple of tests. I did them again to see what would happen now. Herewith. Apr 10 16:44:52 BAPhD sm-mta[114]: starting daemon (8.12.8): SMTP+queueing@00:30:00 Apr 10 16:47:32 BAPhD sm-msp-queue[120]: starting daemon (8.12.8): queueing@00:30:00 (the system used pid 113 and 119 when I ran top this morning) sendmail -bt -d0.13 < /dev/null Version 8.12.8 Compiled with: DNSMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING SCANF STARTTLS TCPWRAPPERS USERDB XDEBUG OS Defines: BSD4_4_SOCKADDR HASFCHOWN HASFCHMOD HASFLOCK HASGETDTABLESIZE HASGETUSERSHELL HASINITGROUPS HASLSTAT HASNICE HASRANDOM HASRRESVPORT HASSETLOGIN HASSETREUID HASSETRLIMIT HASSETSID HASSETUSERCONTEXT HASSETVBUF HAS_ST_GEN HASSRANDOMDEV HASURANDOMDEV HASSTRERROR HASUNAME HASUNSETENV HASWAITPID IDENTPROTO IP_SRCROUTE LOCK_ON_OPEN SAFENFSPATHCONF USE_DOUBLE_FORK USESETEUID USESYSCTL Kernel symbols: don't use _PATH_UNIX Conf file: /etc/mail/submit.cf (default for MSP) Conf file: /etc/mail/sendmail.cf (default for MTA) Pid file: /var/run/sendmail.pid (default) libsm Defines: SM_CONF_GETOPT SM_CONF_LONGLONG SM_CONF_MEMCHR SM_CONF_MSG SM_CONF_SEM SM_CONF_SETITIME a.k.a.: BAPhD a.k.a.: BAPhD.gihon UUCP nodename: BAPhD.gihon.org.au a.k.a.: BAPhD.gihon.org.au a.k.a.: [172.16.1.1] a.k.a.: [192.168.1.100] a.k.a.: [IPv6:fe80::200:21ff:fed5:c670] a.k.a.: [IPv6:fe80::205:1cff:fe01:9622] a.k.a.: [IPv6:::1] a.k.a.: localhost.my.domain a.k.a.: [IPv6:fe80::1] a.k.a.: [127.0.0.1] Conf file: /etc/mail/sendmail.cf (selected) Pid file: /var/run/sendmail.pid (selected) ============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============ (short domain name) $w = BAPhD (canonical domain name) $j = BAPhD.gihon.org.au (subdomain name) $m = gihon.org.au (node name) $k = BAPhD.gihon.org.au ======================================================== ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked) Enter
> root@BAPhD ~ #sendmail -bs 220 BAPhD.gihon.org.au ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17: 12:37 +0930 (CST) EHLO localhost 250-BAPhD.gihon.org.au Hello root@localhost, pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP QUIT 221 2.0.0 BAPhD.gihon.org.au closing connection Does this say anything useful? >Don't use top. Sendmail might be less busy than the top20 processes and >never get displayed. Try ps: > Thanks for that tip. -- Brian