From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 22 22:56:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA13881 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:56:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA13870 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:56:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA08026; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:55:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:55:43 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Megan Connolly cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail errors In-Reply-To: <34999252.7502@haverford.pvt.k12.pa.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Megan Connolly wrote: > Unable to get canonical name of client, err=0 > This error message is being delivered to the messages file in the > /var/log directory and the superuser account. How is it possible to > solve this error? > Several users are also experiencing "NOQUEUE:SYSERR broken pipe" > errors. Is this message due to an overload of the server, and is this > error related to the canonical errors? Is there a way to solve this > problem as well (possibly throught the sendmail config.file). Some program that's called after sendmail (mail.local?) is dying. check your user limits in /etc/login.conf and increase as necessary. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major