From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 23:30:39 2002 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 A004137B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:30:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail024.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail024.syd.optusnet.com.au [210.49.20.148]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7808343E6A for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:30:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com) Received: from au.darkbluesea.com (c17706.kelvn1.qld.optusnet.com.au [210.49.51.60]) by mail024.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g8S6UZK31610 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 16:30:36 +1000 Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 16:30:35 +1000 Subject: Re: sendmail: File descriptors missing on startup: stderr; Bad file descriptor Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v546) From: Duncan Anker To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <3D941EE0.5166.6FDC7551@localhost> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.546) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, Sep 27, 2002, at 23:03 Australia/Brisbane, Dan Langille wrote: > I keep seeing this in /var/log/maillog but do not know the cause: > > sendmail[42390]: File descriptors missing on startup: stderr; Bad > file descriptor > > I'm on FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #0: Thu Sep 26 09:02:16 EDT 2002 with > sendmail 8.12.5 > > Any ideas on cause/fix? I believe Dan has solved his problem, however I ran into this one recently and a scour of Google suggested that this can also be caused by a misbehaving hard drive. So if other folks are seeing this, try an fsck. I believe this is the source of my problem, since my disk is bad. However, the file system is still dirty and I can't take the box offline to fix it yet, so I don't know if it's just a coincidence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message