From owner-freebsd-questions  Fri Jul 31 17:42:52 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA03128
          for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 17:42:52 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from hkpentalpha.pentalpha.com.hk ([202.82.29.8])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA03111
          for <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 17:42:47 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from danny@pentalpha.com.hk)
Received: from domain (ipproxy.pentalphapha.com.hk. [202.82.29.3])
	by hkpentalpha.pentalpha.com.hk (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id IAA03242;
	Sat, 1 Aug 1998 08:49:47 +0800 (CST)
Message-ID: <003601bdbce5$dc80c080$6f00000a@domain.pentalpha.com.k>
From: "Danny" <danny@pentalpha.com.hk>
To: "Doug White" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc: <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: help
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 08:46:31 +0800
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="big5"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG


-----Original Message-----
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Danny <danny@pentalpha.com.hk>
Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: 01 August 1998 AM 05:27
Subject: Re: help


>
>On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Danny wrote:
>
>> I had setup a FreeBSD mail server and it function good. One day suddenly,
>> user cannot check mail with it and send mail with  it. there is error
>> of -ERR POP timeout. When I reboot it, it stop when starting sendmail.
Can
>> you help me?
>
>Sounds like your nameserver fell over.  Check that it's running and check
>/etc/resolv.conf for correct configuration.
>
>Doug White                              | University of Oregon
>Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
>http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
>
>

After waiting for long time, the system was started. However, all the user
need to wait for a very long time to login and check mail. The system seem
to be very slow. Also found a record of "unable to write
/var/run/sendmail.pid" in maillog.

I had checked the resolv.conf and it is ok. When I start "nslookup", it tell
me everything I want and very fast.

Danny


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message