From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 24 13: 3:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AE1737B41B; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:03:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3OK2PWC061471; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 22:03:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3OK2PYj061470; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 22:02:25 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 22:02:25 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Gregory Neil Shapiro Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail complaining about filedescriptors? Message-ID: <20020424220225.C61408@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20020422213522.A4465@freebie.xs4all.nl> <15556.29897.695479.817308@horsey.gshapiro.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15556.29897.695479.817308@horsey.gshapiro.net>; from gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 01:38:33PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 01:38:33PM -0700, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: > wkb> Apr 22 09:29:50 freebie sendmail[253]: File descriptors missing on startup: stdout, stderr; Bad file descriptor > > sendmail always checks it's first three fd's at startup to avoid the > problem that has just come to light in the FreeBSD security announcement. > This is what is logged if sendmail has problems with them. It can be > ignored as sendmail attaches /dev/null to them. Ah, OK, thanks a lot for the clarification. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message