Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 10:06:32 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@magnesium.net> To: Eric Crist <ecrist@secure-computing.net> Cc: 'FreeBSD Mailing List' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sendmail hand upon boot and restart Message-ID: <20040707170632.GB89192@toxic.magnesium.net> In-Reply-To: <003901c4643c$79dc1ba0$6501a8c0@Nomad> References: <3174.209.167.16.15.1089207132.squirrel@209.167.16.15> <003901c4643c$79dc1ba0$6501a8c0@Nomad>
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On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:07:11AM -0500, Eric Crist wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of
> > Steve Bertrand
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 8:32 AM
> > To: Gary Kline
> > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: Sendmail hand upon boot and restart
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > After a year I'm finally upgrading DNS servers, and having
> > > a bad time getting sendmail and dhcp to work. I may finally
> > > have dhcp woking on ns1.thought.org. ping works and my
> > > /var/log/maillog is filling up. But on tao.thought.org, sendmail
> > > refuses to start. Can anybody help me ith this?
> >
> > First we need to create a baseline...Do you get any error
> > messages, or does sendmail just appear to hang? Can you ping
> > from this machine? Do you have a firewall setup on the box?
> > Do you have 'sendmail_enable="YES"' in /etc/rc.conf?
> >
> > Do the following and perhaps post the output so we know what
> > stage in the game you are at:
> >
> > # cat /etc/resolv.conf
> > # dig freebsd.org
> > # dig @204.101.251.2 freebsd.org
> >
> > Every time I have had sendmail problems, it has always come
> > back to DNS failures.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > >
> > > I'm swsapping out my Linksys NIC between my old DNS server and the
> > > new. Wih the 10/100 card in the old server, thinks work
> > flwlessly;
> > > in the new they don't.
> > >
> > > Any ideas on what I need to configure, and hw?
> > >
>
> Something else that would really help would be to edit your
> /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file on the line that starts with LogLevel. It is
> probably set to 9. Change this value to 20 or so, and from /etc/mail,
> type make restart.
>
> View the end of your /var/log/maillog file by typing the following
> command, and post these results to the list:
>
> # tail -n 50 /var/log/maillog
>
> This will help us see if there is anything going on. Adding the output
> of 'date' at the time you ran the above command would help as well.
>
Right; my maillog was getting loaded with output (at LogLevel==15)
but it said that mail to kline@tao was being denied. Prob'ly
because dhcp esd not ruunning.
more later, hopefully!!!
gary
>
>
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