From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 26 12:57:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA24389 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:57:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA24378 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:57:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA02132 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:57:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:57:01 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sendmail Problem/File Descriptors Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Every so often (maybe a few times a week) I get messages on the console like the following (an old example): Jan 12 13:17:14 andrsn sendmail[4909]: NAA04906: SYSERR: putoutmsg (www.experts-exchange.com.): error on output channel sending "451 ... end of deliver(smtp): fd 0 not open: Bad file descriptor": Input/output error Jan 12 13:17:14 andrsn sendmail[4909]: NAA04906: SYSERR(andrsn): ... end of deliver(smtp): fd 0 not open: Bad file descriptor Jan 12 13:17:14 andrsn sendmail[4909]: NAA04906: SYSERR(andrsn): ... end of deliver(smtp): fd 1 not open: Bad file descriptor Jan 12 13:17:14 andrsn sendmail[4909]: NAA04906: SYSERR(andrsn): ... end of deliver(smtp): fd 2 not open: Bad file descriptor These messages do get sent....at least eventually. Is this something to worry about, or not? If it is, is it something wrong with pine or with sendmail, and how might I fix it? (I asked about this on the sendmail newsgroup and got no replies.) Thanks-- Annelise