Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 09:16:24 -0700 From: "Ghulam Dastgir" <banta@ghulam.force9.co.uk> To: "Ruslan Ermilov" <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Sendmail problems (using Force9 ISP) Message-ID: <01beb037$ec209240$LocalHost@signup>
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Hello, the thing is that I don't run sendmail again when my ppp link is up. So why is this happening?? In fact I still get these errors if I'm not running sendmail at all!?! Ghulam -----Original Message----- From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: Ghulam Dastgir <banta@ghulam.force9.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 12:11 PM Subject: Re: Sendmail problems (using Force9 ISP) >On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 08:37:32PM -0700, Ghulam Dastgir wrote: >> Hello, >> >> after months of agony, pain, misery..... I just got my User PPP working. :-) >> I'm using FBSD 2.2.6. >> But my email isn't working. In fact when the PPP link comes up I get a load >> of errors from sendmail along the lines of: >> >> sendmail[450]: problem creating SMTP port >> sendmail[450]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: cannot bind: Address already in use >> sendmail[450]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: server SMTP socket wedged: exiting >> >> Now I get hundreds of these messgaes flooding my xterms.... >> >Symptoms are like you're trying to run ``sendmail -bd'' twice. Don't do it. >By default (see /etc/rc.conf), sendmail it started at the system startup. >You don't need to start again after the PPP link is up. > >> Also when I try to download mail from my ISP's incoming mail server >> (mail.force9.net) using the sendmail ETRN command "ETRN <myhost>", I get: >> >> 502 unimplemented(#5.5.1) >> >WYSIWYG. This command is not implemented in Sendmail. > >> And end up not being able to download any email. >> >> Any ideas?? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Ghulam >> >> PS how do I run PPP as a non-root user?? >> >man 8 ppp, find the ``allow user[s]'' command. > > >Cheers, >-- >Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the >ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank >+380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine > >http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve >http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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