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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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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 problems > getting FreeBSD to install on a new system. Hard drive cabling was the > problem - got that fixed. Hardware problems can be a pain. :-) > I have FreeBSD up and running now. I have a couple of questions. When I > installed FreeBSD, it automatically installed Sendmail 8.13. I installed > cyrus-sasl2 and cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd from ports because I need SMTP auth. > Sendmail is running on the box: > > # ps waux | grep sendmail > smmsp 20613 0.0 0.1 3440 2800 ?? Is 2:53PM 0:00.00 sendmail: > 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: > accepting connections (sendmail) > > but I cannot send mail through this server using Outlook Express on the > Windows computer on my desk (I get a generic error message about "the > connection to the server has failed" nor can I telnet to port 25 on this > server. I have noticed that there isn't anything in /etc/rc.conf regarding > sendmail (no SENDMAIL_ENABLE="YES" etc.) 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 I > put the wrong IP address on this machine (it conflicted with another server > I currently have running). I fixed that. In /var/messages, however, I'm > seeing this every 10 minutes or so: > > 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 > wrong IP address on the ethernet interface (and ssh is trying to bind to > this wrong IP) or if I'm getting this message because ssh is being started > from both rc.d (there is a script in there for ssh) and from /etc/rc.conf > (/etc/rc.conf contains sshd_enable="YES") The variable in /etc/rc.conf is used to activate the rc.d script. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGjARAEnfvsMMhpyURAsTXAKCV/TchM4Npb94WNVvtWqef54CdAQCdFymS k28MASIuyOhTqSl5HV+VySo= =AXtK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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