From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 25 12:11:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [212.110.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A97D315A46 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 12:11:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id WAA21011; Tue, 25 May 1999 22:07:28 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 22:07:28 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Ghulam Dastgir Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail problems (using Force9 ISP) Message-ID: <19990525220728.A18606@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Ghulam Dastgir , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <01bea729$167ad900$LocalHost@signup> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <01bea729$167ad900$LocalHost@signup>; from Ghulam Dastgir on Tue, May 25, 1999 at 08:37:32PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 08:37:32PM -0700, Ghulam Dastgir wrote: > Hello, > > after months of agony, pain, misery..... I just got my User PPP working. :-) > I'm using FBSD 2.2.6. > But my email isn't working. In fact when the PPP link comes up I get a load > of errors from sendmail along the lines of: > > sendmail[450]: problem creating SMTP port > sendmail[450]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: cannot bind: Address already in use > sendmail[450]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: server SMTP socket wedged: exiting > > Now I get hundreds of these messgaes flooding my xterms.... > Symptoms are like you're trying to run ``sendmail -bd'' twice. Don't do it. By default (see /etc/rc.conf), sendmail it started at the system startup. You don't need to start again after the PPP link is up. > Also when I try to download mail from my ISP's incoming mail server > (mail.force9.net) using the sendmail ETRN command "ETRN ", I get: > > 502 unimplemented(#5.5.1) > WYSIWYG. This command is not implemented in Sendmail. > And end up not being able to download any email. > > Any ideas?? > > Thanks, > > Ghulam > > PS how do I run PPP as a non-root user?? > man 8 ppp, find the ``allow user[s]'' command. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message