Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 12:15:12 +0100 (BST) From: bsd mailing lists <bsd@righi.df.unibo.it> To: Sergey Kosinov <sergey@osvita.frk.kirovograd.ua> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help me resolve this Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518121442.3606A-100000@righi.df.unibo.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518101204.23642A-100000@osvita.frk.kirovograd.ua>
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How much is your bandwidth ?? seems like you have too much users on your system, and your network cannot support all the traffic Rick On Mon, 18 May 1998, Sergey Kosinov wrote: > Dear Sir or Madam, > > I am unable to solve some problems that constantly occur in my system, so > I ask You to give me Your competent advice to help me out. > I have Free BSD 2.2.2. > > 1. My first headache is my mail system. We have a _very_ low bandwidth > connection, and quite often, when users subscribe to some highly populated > mailing lists or order something rather large via ftp-mail, the memory of > the server becomes stuffed with lots of idle sendmail processes. In such > situations the output of "ps -ax" command looks like: > > ------ some lines deleted ------ > 113 ?? Ss 0:00.28 sendmail: rejecting connections on port 25: 15 childr > 1255 ?? I 0:00.01 sendmail: server falcon.glas.apc.org [193.124.5.54] c > 1256 ?? I 0:00.02 sendmail: RAA01256 falcon.glas.apc.org [193.124.5.54] > 1288 ?? I 0:00.01 sendmail: server falcon.glas.apc.org [193.124.5.54] c > 1289 ?? I 0:00.02 sendmail: RAA01289 falcon.glas.apc.org [193.124.5.54] > 1445 ?? I 0:00.01 sendmail: server kremvax.demos.su [194.87.0.20] child > 1451 ?? I 0:00.01 sendmail: server kremvax.demos.su [194.87.0.20] child > 1452 ?? I 0:00.02 sendmail: TAA01452 kremvax.demos.su [194.87.0.20]: DA > 1453 ?? I 0:00.02 sendmail: server kremvax.demos.su [194.87.0.20] child > 1458 ?? I 0:00.01 sendmail: server kremvax.demos.su [194.87.0.20] child > 1461 ?? I 0:00.02 sendmail: TAA01461 kremvax.demos.su [194.87.0.20]: DA > 1464 ?? I 0:00.01 sendmail: server kremvax.demos.su [194.87.0.20] child > 1467 ?? I 0:00.05 sendmail: TAA01467 kremvax.demos.su [194.87.0.20]: DA > 1469 ?? I 0:00.01 sendmail: server kremvax.demos.su [194.87.0.20] child > 1470 ?? I 0:00.02 sendmail: TAA01470 kremvax.demos.su [194.87.0.20]: DA > 1473 ?? I 0:00.02 sendmail: TAA01473 kremvax.demos.su [194.87.0.20]: DA > 1479 ?? I 0:00.03 sendmail: TAA01479 kremvax.demos.su [194.87.0.20]: DA > 1482 ?? I 0:00.01 sendmail: server kremvax.demos.su [194.87.0.20] child > 1484 ?? I 0:00.01 sendmail: server kremvax.demos.su [194.87.0.20] child > 1486 ?? I 0:00.02 sendmail: TAA01486 kremvax.demos.su [194.87.0.20]: DA > 1487 ?? I 0:00.03 sendmail: TAA01487 kremvax.demos.su [194.87.0.20]: DA > 1509 ?? I 0:00.02 sendmail: server ultra.ts.kiev.ua [193.124.229.197] c > 1511 ?? I 0:00.01 sendmail: server kremvax.demos.su [194.87.0.20] child > 1512 ?? I 0:00.02 sendmail: TAA01512 kremvax.demos.su [194.87.0.20]: DA > 1513 ?? I 0:00.01 sendmail: server kremvax.demos.su [194.87.0.20] child > 1514 ?? I 0:00.02 sendmail: TAA01514 kremvax.demos.su [194.87.0.20]: DA > 1570 ?? I 0:00.27 sendmail: NAA07360 physics1.byu.edu: client EHLO (sen > 1590 ?? S 0:00.04 sendmail: server root@baser.frk.kirovograd.ua [194.18 > 1599 ?? S 0:00.02 sendmail: server root@baser.frk.kirovograd.ua [194.18 > ------ some lines deleted ------ > > Usually, after that I got similar error messages in my log files: > > "maillog" - log file > May 17 12:37:53 osvita sendmail[22395]: collect: premature EOM: Error 0 > May 17 12:37:53 osvita sendmail[22395]: collect: unexpected close on connection from [192.114.215.2], sender=<C1371937@sapir.makash.ac.il>: Error 0 > > "messages" - log file > May 12 19:01:50 osvita sendmail[803]: collect: premature EOM: Operation timed out with netra.graphnet.com > May 12 19:01:50 osvita sendmail[803]: QAA00803: SYSERR(root): collect: I/O error on connection from netra.graphnet.com, from=<ekytchanova@graphnet.com>: Operation timed out with netra.graphnet.com > May 12 19:01:50 osvita sendmail[803]: QAA00803: SYSERR(root): collect: I/O error on connection from netra.graphnet.com, from=<ekytchanova@graphnet.com>: Operation timed out with netra.graphnet.com > > Is there any hope to cure the way things happen? Should I install more > memory (now I have only 32M physical RAM)? Or, should I try to tune up > sendmail config somehow? > > > > 2. The second problem (well, it does not hurt very much, but I'd rather I > didn't have it) is the ppp users. According to the log file there are some > conflicts between pppd and routed when a ppp user connects. Is it > necessary to turn off "proxy arp" setting in pppd config file? Or should I > turn off routed completely? The excerpt of the log file is given below. > > ------ some lines deleted ------ > May 14 19:32:03 osvita pppd[16736]: pppd 2.2.0 started by sergey, uid 1011 > May 14 19:32:03 osvita pppd[16736]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cuaa0 > May 14 19:32:09 osvita pppd[16736]: local IP address 194.183.166.97 > May 14 19:32:09 osvita pppd[16736]: remote IP address 194.183.166.110 > May 14 19:32:09 osvita routed[58]: IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP ALLHOSTS: Address already in use > May 14 19:32:09 osvita routed[58]: IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP ALLHOSTS: Address already in use > May 14 19:32:09 osvita routed[58]: setsockopt(IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP RIP): Address already in use > May 14 19:32:09 osvita routed[58]: setsockopt(IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP RIP): Address already in use > May 14 19:32:09 osvita routed[58]: punt RTM_ADD without gateway > May 14 19:32:09 osvita routed[58]: punt RTM_ADD without gateway > May 14 19:32:49 osvita pppd[16736]: Modem hangup > May 14 19:32:49 osvita routed[58]: interface ppp0 to 194.183.166.97 turned off > May 14 19:32:49 osvita routed[58]: interface ppp0 to 194.183.166.97 turned off > May 14 19:33:20 osvita routed[58]: punt RTM_LOSING without gateway > May 14 19:33:20 osvita routed[58]: punt RTM_LOSING without gateway > May 14 19:37:35 osvita routed[58]: punt RTM_LOSING without gateway > May 14 19:37:35 osvita routed[58]: punt RTM_LOSING without gateway > May 14 20:04:47 osvita routed[58]: punt RTM_LOSING without gateway > May 14 20:04:47 osvita routed[58]: punt RTM_LOSING without gateway > May 14 20:33:20 osvita routed[58]: punt RTM_LOSING without gateway > ------ some lines deleted ------ > > 3. How to log ftp logins and ftp transers? While working with Linux, I > used "xferlog"-file for these purposes. But now, with Free BSD I don't > seem to find anything like "xferlog"-file. > > 4. And finally, I just wanted to ask how can I configure syslogd to log > password change events. Is there a simple way to do it in Free BSD? > > > Thanks a lot for Your assistance. Please take my apologies for being so > much wordy. I didn't mean to, but I thought I'd better give as much > information as possible to describe my situation. > > Thank You in advance. > > Sincerely, > Sergey Kosinov > Net Admin assistant > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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