Re: sendmail question

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


Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:37:03 +1000

ok.. my bad

I feel like an idiot now..

removed localhost.com from /etc/hosts and everything is fixed.

alex.

"alex" <me@me.com> wrote in message
news:4108883f$0$18669$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> 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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