Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 01:08:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sendmail: MinFreeBlocks question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971013010612.9609H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199710080852.LAA11930@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
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On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> Hi, sendmail gurus!
Who, us? You can't be serious! :-)
>
> When I come today, my /var filesystem was full.
Oops.
>
> sendmail (8.8.7) shows the following:
> --- rejecting connections on port 25: min free: 100 ---
>
> In the Operation Guide I've read that sendmail will refuse
> SMTP MAIL command with error 452, right?
Maybe. This may be more of a ``no space available'' type message for
quotas and the like.
> Okay, I tried `telnet my_sendmail_machine 25'.
> The result - not an 452 error, but tcp connection refused!!!
In this case, sendmail died too.
> Okay, I've made my /var filesystem's freespace to equal to 20M
> and was waiting about 20 minutes.
>
> The same.
> Sendmail was listening on port 25 (netstat -an) and shown in
> the ps output with the same "reject ... min free ..." proctitle.
>
> When I killed sendmail and started it again, everything become ok.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
So your problem is... ?
You ran out of space and sendmail aborted ops until you did something
about it. You did the correct thing and now all is normal.
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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