Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:51:00 -0400 From: mikel king <mikel.king@olivent.com> To: Tim Kellers <kellers@njit.edu> Cc: Tim Kellers <timothyk@wallnet.com>, "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org>, "kellers@njit.edu" <kellers@njit.edu> Subject: Re: can't ping localhost Message-ID: <171315B0-DDBC-4E55-9E34-5EFE05081045@olivent.com> In-Reply-To: <4C6D49F1.5040909@njit.edu> References: <4C6D3E04.5060009@wallnet.com> <4C6D479E.9010706@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4C6D49F1.5040909@njit.edu>
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Your lo0 only has inet6 addresses, perhaps try binding a v4 address? Cheers, m! On Aug 19, 2010, at 11:12, Tim Kellers <kellers@njit.edu> wrote: > On 08/19/10 11:02, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> On 19/08/2010 15:21, Tim Kellers wrote: >> =20 >>> I'm eagerly open to suggestions. >>>=20 >>> =20 >> What does 'ifconfig lo0' say? >>=20 >> What does 'sockstat | grep :25' say? >>=20 >> What does 'ls -la /usr/libexec/sendmail/' say? >>=20 >> What does 'mount | grep /usr' say? >>=20 >> It sounds as if either: >>=20 >> * Your loopback interface has lost address 127.0.0.1 >>=20 >> or: >>=20 >> * Some process other than a live sendmail instance has bound to port >> 25 on the loopback. >>=20 >> or: >>=20 >> * sendmail has somehow lost its setgid-ness >>=20 >> Cheers, >>=20 >> Matthew >>=20 >> =20 > # ifconfig lo0 > lo0: flags=3D8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384 > inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 > inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 >=20 > (lo0 looks unconfigured to me) >=20 > # sockstat | grep :25 > root sendmail 7371 3 tcp4 *:25 *:* > root sendmail 7371 5 tcp6 *:25 *:* >=20 > (that looks fine to me) >=20 > # ls -la /usr/libexec/sendmail/ > total 676 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 30 21:03 . > drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 1536 Mar 30 21:03 .. > -r-xr-sr-x 1 root smmsp 669788 Mar 30 21:03 sendmail >=20 > (looks OK to me, too) >=20 > # mount | grep /usr > /dev/aacd0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) >=20 > (Looks normal to me, too) >=20 > Thanks >=20 > Tim Kellers >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g"
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