From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 15:03:06 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 401C110656A4 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:03:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3fd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A01A68FC17 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:03:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from russet.local (reflex.squiz.co.uk [83.217.109.164]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o7JF31Kl013068 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:03:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk: Host reflex.squiz.co.uk [83.217.109.164] claimed to be russet.local Message-ID: <4C6D479E.9010706@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:02:54 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Kellers References: <4C6D3E04.5060009@wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <4C6D3E04.5060009@wallnet.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig1F26053BD1466B31609553C9" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.2 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: questions@freebsd.org, kellers@njit.edu Subject: Re: can't ping localhost X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:03:06 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig1F26053BD1466B31609553C9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 19/08/2010 15:21, Tim Kellers wrote: > I'm eagerly open to suggestions. >=20 What does 'ifconfig lo0' say? What does 'sockstat | grep :25' say? What does 'ls -la /usr/libexec/sendmail/' say? What does 'mount | grep /usr' say? It sounds as if either: * Your loopback interface has lost address 127.0.0.1 or: * Some process other than a live sendmail instance has bound to port 25 on the loopback. or: * sendmail has somehow lost its setgid-ness Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW --------------enig1F26053BD1466B31609553C9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxtR6UACgkQ8Mjk52CukIyPlQCfVzEaElnnOZAWbPU+GeO6iQd/ 3MwAoIKFNhSgdfck+p2P9BF3P40x7KEt =wLVQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig1F26053BD1466B31609553C9--