From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 28 10:31:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17841 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:31:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nemesis.fortean.com (root@nemesis.fortean.com [209.42.194.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17647 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:31:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walter@nemesis.fortean.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by nemesis.fortean.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01385 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:26:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from walter) Received: from sarip.sol.net (mail@sarip.sol.net [169.207.30.120]) by nemesis.fortean.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00582 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:17:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) by sarip.sol.net (8.8.8/8.8.8/SNNS-1.02) with ESMTP id TAA24251; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:21:43 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA02703; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:21:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: by hub.freebsd.org (bulk_mailer v1.6); Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:20:04 -0800 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA02122 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:20:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (cisigw.coppe.ufrj.br [146.164.5.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA02055 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:19:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonny@coppe.ufrj.br) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA09326; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 23:19:40 -0200 (EDT) (envelope-from jonny) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199801280119.XAA09326@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Subject: Sendmail problems. To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 23:19:40 -0200 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 -- 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 PGP fingerprint: 29 C0 50 B9 B6 3E 58 F2 83 5F E3 26 BF 0F EA 67