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Date:      Wed, 24 Apr 2002 22:02:25 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail complaining about filedescriptors?
Message-ID:  <20020424220225.C61408@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <15556.29897.695479.817308@horsey.gshapiro.net>; from gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 01:38:33PM -0700
References:  <20020422213522.A4465@freebie.xs4all.nl> <15556.29897.695479.817308@horsey.gshapiro.net>

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On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 01:38:33PM -0700, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote:
> wkb> Apr 22 09:29:50 freebie sendmail[253]: File descriptors missing on startup: stdout, stderr; Bad file descriptor
> 
> sendmail always checks it's first three fd's at startup to avoid the
> problem that has just come to light in the FreeBSD security announcement.
> This is what is logged if sendmail has problems with them.  It can be
> ignored as sendmail attaches /dev/null to them.

Ah, OK, thanks a lot for the clarification.

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