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Date:      Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:28:34 +0930
From:      Brian Astill <bastill@adam.com.au>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sendmail woes
Message-ID:  <3E95404A.3020003@adam.com.au>
References:  <1049333119.3e8b8d7f0c73b@webmail.adam.com.au> <1049432553.3e8d11e923925@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030404113740.T20523@gothmog> <1049529621.3e8e8d153e24f@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030405221114.GA2419@gothmog.gr> <1049637546.3e9032aae7488@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030406225854.GB9824@gothmog.gr> <3E942B3E.20309@adam.com.au> <20030409143657.GA61280@ei.bzerk.org> <3E94A79B.5020205@adam.com.au> <20030409234339.GC33664@gothmog.gr> <3E94C288.5070707@adam.com.au> <20030410112000.I5505@gothmog>

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Giorgos Keramidas wrote

>Hmmm, this is usually an indication of DNS problems.
>
Can only agree - but where is my error ?
A little while ago Clause Assmann asked me to conduct a couple of tests. 
 I did them again to see what would happen now.  Herewith.
Apr 10 16:44:52 BAPhD sm-mta[114]: starting daemon (8.12.8): 
SMTP+queueing@00:30:00
Apr 10 16:47:32 BAPhD sm-msp-queue[120]: starting daemon (8.12.8): 
queueing@00:30:00

(the system used pid 113 and 119 when I ran top this morning)

sendmail -bt -d0.13 < /dev/null
Version 8.12.8
 Compiled with: DNSMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7
                NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING 
SCANF
                STARTTLS TCPWRAPPERS USERDB XDEBUG
    OS Defines: BSD4_4_SOCKADDR HASFCHOWN HASFCHMOD HASFLOCK
                HASGETDTABLESIZE HASGETUSERSHELL HASINITGROUPS HASLSTAT 
HASNICE
                HASRANDOM HASRRESVPORT HASSETLOGIN HASSETREUID HASSETRLIMIT
                HASSETSID HASSETUSERCONTEXT HASSETVBUF HAS_ST_GEN 
HASSRANDOMDEV
                HASURANDOMDEV HASSTRERROR HASUNAME HASUNSETENV HASWAITPID
                IDENTPROTO IP_SRCROUTE LOCK_ON_OPEN SAFENFSPATHCONF
                USE_DOUBLE_FORK USESETEUID USESYSCTL
Kernel symbols: don't use _PATH_UNIX
     Conf file: /etc/mail/submit.cf (default for MSP)
     Conf file: /etc/mail/sendmail.cf (default for MTA)
      Pid file: /var/run/sendmail.pid (default)
 libsm Defines: SM_CONF_GETOPT SM_CONF_LONGLONG SM_CONF_MEMCHR
                SM_CONF_MSG SM_CONF_SEM SM_CONF_SETITIME
        a.k.a.: BAPhD
        a.k.a.: BAPhD.gihon
 UUCP nodename: BAPhD.gihon.org.au
        a.k.a.: BAPhD.gihon.org.au
        a.k.a.: [172.16.1.1]
        a.k.a.: [192.168.1.100]
        a.k.a.: [IPv6:fe80::200:21ff:fed5:c670]
        a.k.a.: [IPv6:fe80::205:1cff:fe01:9622]
        a.k.a.: [IPv6:::1]
        a.k.a.: localhost.my.domain
        a.k.a.: [IPv6:fe80::1]
        a.k.a.: [127.0.0.1]
     Conf file: /etc/mail/sendmail.cf (selected)
      Pid file: /var/run/sendmail.pid (selected)
============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============
      (short domain name) $w = BAPhD
  (canonical domain name) $j = BAPhD.gihon.org.au
         (subdomain name) $m = gihon.org.au
              (node name) $k = BAPhD.gihon.org.au
========================================================
ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
Enter <ruleset> <address>

 > root@BAPhD ~ #sendmail -bs
220 BAPhD.gihon.org.au ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit; Thu, 10 Apr 
2003 17:
12:37 +0930 (CST)
EHLO localhost
250-BAPhD.gihon.org.au Hello root@localhost, pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
QUIT
221 2.0.0 BAPhD.gihon.org.au closing connection

Does this say anything useful?

>Don't use top.  Sendmail might be less busy than the top20 processes and
>never get displayed.  Try ps:
>
Thanks for that tip.


--
Brian



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