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Date:      Tue, 27 Jan 1998 23:19:40 -0200 (EDT)
From:      Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Sendmail problems.
Message-ID:  <199801280119.XAA09326@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>

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Hi,

  One machine here is locking on sendmail, don't know why.  Look:

% ps -ax | grep sendmail
  178  ??  Ss     0:00.58 sendmail: rejecting connections on port 25: 24 childr
  179  ??  I      0:00.10 sendmail: CAA02969: from queue (sendmail)
  512  ??  I      0:00.03 sendmail: KAA00740: from queue (sendmail)
  616  ??  I      0:00.02 sendmail: IAA00615: from queue (sendmail)
  647  ??  I      0:00.02 sendmail: IAA00646: from queue (sendmail)
  766  ??  I      0:00.01 sendmail: JAA00765: from queue (sendmail)
  772  ??  I      0:00.01 sendmail: JAA00771: from queue (sendmail)
  776  ??  I      0:00.14 sendmail: JAA00620 colchester.lps.ufrj.br.: client DA
  817  ??  I      0:00.04 sendmail: OAA00474: from queue (sendmail)
  921  ??  I      0:00.07 sendmail: QAA15708 barra.nce.ufrj.br.: client DATA st
  993  ??  I      0:00.07 sendmail: JAA06043: from queue (sendmail)
 1096  ??  I      0:00.06 sendmail: MAA01222: from queue (sendmail)
 1159  ??  I      0:00.02 sendmail: MAA01158: from queue (sendmail)
 1163  ??  I      0:00.06 sendmail: KAA00933: from queue (sendmail)
 1206  ??  I      0:00.02 sendmail: MAA01202: from queue (sendmail)
 1219  ??  I      0:00.02 sendmail: MAA01218: from queue (sendmail)
 1233  ??  I      0:00.05 sendmail: MAA01232 epq.ime.eb.br.: client DATA status
 1246  ??  I      0:00.01 sendmail: MAA01245: from queue (sendmail)
 1255  ??  I      0:00.07 sendmail: XAB01474: from queue (sendmail)

...

  At total there are 68 instances of sendmail showing in the ps output.

  The output of netstat is the following:

% netstat -f inet -n | grep 25
tcp        0      0  146.164.53.65.1688     200.24.18.21.25        ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0  146.164.53.65.1680     130.149.4.10.25        CLOSE_WAIT
tcp        0      0  146.164.53.65.1630     207.82.250.93.25       ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0  146.164.53.65.1434     146.164.53.254.25      CLOSE_WAIT
tcp       39      0  146.164.53.65.1367     146.164.8.7.25         CLOSE_WAIT
tcp        0      0  146.164.53.65.1351     146.164.47.130.25      CLOSE_WAIT
tcp       54      0  146.164.53.65.1350     146.164.53.1.25        CLOSE_WAIT
tcp       54      0  146.164.53.65.1333     146.164.53.91.25       CLOSE_WAIT
tcp        0      0  146.164.53.65.1025     146.164.63.4.25        CLOSE_WAIT
tcp        0      0  146.164.53.65.1024     146.164.53.126.25      CLOSE_WAIT

So, all these sendmails are not waiting for connection.  They're blocked
somewhere.  But, where ?  And why ?

  If I run sendmail -q -v by hand, the messages are sucessfully delivered.
I don't intend to put sendmail -q in crontab, but would rather know why
this is happening.  Could somebody help ?

  This machine has been somewhat recently installed, and is running a
-stable from 97.12.08.  Older kernel versions also showed this
behaviour, and I have other machines with MUCH more email trafic
that don't have this problem.

					Jonny

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Joao Carlos Mendes Luis			jonny@gta.ufrj.br
+55 21 290-4698				jonny@coppe.ufrj.br
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	UFRJ/COPPE/CISI
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