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Date:      Wed, 4 Jul 2007 22:34:08 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Lisa Casey <lisa@jellico.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New FreeBSD installation
Message-ID:  <20070704203408.GA91364@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <003a01c7be78$42267cc0$d5b9bfcf@lisac>
References:  <003a01c7be78$42267cc0$d5b9bfcf@lisac>

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On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 04:16:47PM -0400, Lisa Casey wrote:
> First, thanks for the help I got from this list when I was having problem=
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> getting FreeBSD to install on a new system. Hard drive cabling was the=20
> problem - got that fixed.

Hardware problems can be a pain. :-)
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> I have FreeBSD up and running now. I have a couple of questions. When I=
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> installed FreeBSD, it automatically installed Sendmail 8.13. I installed=
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> cyrus-sasl2 and cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd from ports because I need SMTP auth=
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> Sendmail is running on the box:
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> # ps waux | grep sendmail
> smmsp 20613  0.0  0.1  3440 2800  ??  Is    2:53PM   0:00.00 sendmail:=20
> Queue runner@00:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail)
> root  20615  0.0  0.2  4400 3692  ??  Ss    2:54PM   0:00.03 sendmail:=20
> accepting connections (sendmail)
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> but I cannot send mail through this server using Outlook Express on the=
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> Windows computer on my desk (I get a generic error message about "the=20
> connection to the server has failed" nor can I telnet to port 25 on this=
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> server. I  have noticed that there isn't anything in /etc/rc.conf regardi=
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> sendmail (no SENDMAIL_ENABLE=3D"YES"  etc.)=20

The defaults are set in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. And the inbound daemon is
disabled by default.

> Also, when I installed FreeBSD, I installed SSH. Unfortunately, at first =
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> put the wrong IP address on this machine (it conflicted with another serv=
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> I currently have running). I fixed that. In /var/messages, however, I'm=
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> seeing this every 10 minutes or so:
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> Jul  4 16:12:14 mail inetd[423]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use

Could it be that inetd is trying to start sshd while one is already running?

> I don't know if this is because I initially setup this server with the=20
> wrong IP address on the ethernet interface (and ssh is trying to bind to=
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> this wrong IP) or if I'm getting this message because ssh is being starte=
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> from both rc.d (there is a script  in there for ssh) and from /etc/rc.con=
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> (/etc/rc.conf contains sshd_enable=3D"YES")

The variable in /etc/rc.conf is used to activate the rc.d script.

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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