Re: sendmail question

From: alex (me_at_me.com)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:16:46 +1000

ok did a bit of searching around in /var/logs

seems it cant connect to localhost.com

/etc/hosts has an entry for that host, which just
point back to 127.0.0.1

yet if I ping localhost.com

I dont end up there

-bash-2.05b$ dig localhost.com

; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> localhost.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 33375
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;localhost.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
localhost.com. 16766 IN A 10.11.12.13

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
localhost.com. 16766 IN NS ns.wraith.com.
localhost.com. 16766 IN NS ns.village.org.
localhost.com. 16766 IN NS ns1.sigma.net.
localhost.com. 16766 IN NS ns3.village.org.
localhost.com. 16766 IN NS ghost.wraith.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns.village.org. 18940 IN A 168.103.84.176

This is weird.. I have a cable modem on this box which is configured
at start time by dhclient

my /etc/resolv.conf has been changed by this.. Could this be why
I am having the dramas with sendmail?

How do i fix it? How do i change the DNS search order? By editing
/etc/resolv.conf, will it continue to be overwitten?

Alex

"alex" <me@me.com> wrote in message
news:41087a30$0$13085$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> Hi guys,
>
> It seems that sendmail is not working on my system.
> say if i locally try and "mail" a valid user, they never get the mail..
>
> In the console I see the following error re-occuring each time a mail is
> sent
>
> 6TFAHUB006085: SYSERR(user): fill_fd: recipient end of deliver(relay)
> fd_1 not open: Bad file descriptor
>
> I also notice that root seems to get dozens of "mailer daemon delivery
> failure"
> messages.
>
> I havent touched any of sendmails configuration since installing OpenBSD..
> Any ideas?
> I thought maybe PF was breaking it.. But I have tried totally disabling PF
> and its the same.
>
> Am I missing something in rc.conf?
> I seem to recall on FreeBSD if sendmail_enable="NO", I'd get similar
> behaviour to this.
> if i do a "ps -U root", sendmail is in the process list with (accepting
> incoming connections) written
> next to it. In rc.conf on OpenBSD i see none of this. not even a
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf, obviously
> there are some differences between the bsd's.. So i am stuck..
>
> anyone know why my sendmail might not be behaving?
>
> Regards,
> Alex.
>
>

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