Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:50:35 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Bob Kersten <bob_list@fellownet.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: errors in daily messages Message-ID: <20020826175035.GA5633@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <002101c24d13$664042c0$2849a8c0@bob> References: <002101c24d13$664042c0$2849a8c0@bob>
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 05:15:12PM +0200, Bob Kersten wrote:
> I'm getting these errors in the message's that I get daily. What
> do they mean and how can I solve the error?
> > Aug 25 03:31:19 buffy sm-msp-queue[20338]: g7P1VJl2020338:
> SYSERR(root): fill_fd: disconnect: fd 1 not open: Bad file descriptor
> > Aug 25 03:31:19 buffy sm-msp-queue[20338]: g7P1VJl2020338:
> SYSERR(root): fill_fd: disconnect: cannot open /dev/null: Permission
> denied
It seems that something is wrong with /dev/null on your machine. If
that's the case, then you're lucky that only sendmail has shown any
ill effects so far.
Permissions, ownership, major and minor node number of /dev/null
should be:
happy-idiot-talk:~:% ls -l /dev/null
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Aug 26 15:45 /dev/null
If that isn't the case, then you should recreate it:
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV std
Otherwise, check the permissions on the mail spools:
happy-idiot-talk:~:% ls -ld /var/spool/mqueue /var/spool/clientmqueue
drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp 512 Aug 26 12:08 /var/spool/clientmqueue/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root daemon 512 Aug 26 18:44 /var/spool/mqueue/
and verify that you can list out the contents of the mail queue from
both of those directories:
happy-idiot-talk:~:# mailq -v
/var/spool/mqueue is empty
Total requests: 0
happy-idiot-talk:~:# mailq -Ac -v
/var/spool/clientmqueue is empty
Total requests: 0
Cheers,
Matthew
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