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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Jai Durgam wrote:

> 	Hi, I keep getting this message in the /var/log/messages file, 
> any help would be greatly appreciated. 
> Regards
> Jai
> ===========================================================
> Apr 15 11:59:18 kedara sendmail[1500]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: putoutmsg (NO-HOST): err
> or on output channel sending "451 before readcf: fd 1 not open: Bad file descrip
> tor": Input/output error

The remote is telling you that it has a problem.  Look in
/var/log/maillog, determine the perpetrating machine, and let them know
(by a different email address or phone in the whois database).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major