From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 28 0:14: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B027D150EF for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 00:13:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.30.2]) by campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1/3) with ESMTP id JAA17941 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 09:13:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.2/8.6.9) id JAA07011 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 09:13:47 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 09:13:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199906280713.JAA07011@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: strange sendmail logs Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For a couple of weeks I'm now getting these logs in /var/log/messages: Jun 24 23:47:33 myhost sendmail[89576]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: putoutmsg (k-whiner.pica.army.mil): error on output channel sending "220 myhost.mydomain.de ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.2/8.6.9 ready at Thu, 24 Jun 1999 23:47:33 +0200 (CEST)": Broken pipe Jun 25 01:55:34 myhost sendmail[90076]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: putoutmsg (k-whiner.pica.army.mil): error on output channel sending "220 myhost.mydomain.de ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.2/8.6.9 ready at Fri, 25 Jun 1999 01:55:34 +0200 (CEST)": Broken pip I changed the target host name to something anonymous but let the source as it was in the original message. I found that the source hosts a mainling list (info-labview) I'm subscribed. Maybe I'll contact their mail admins but before that I'd like to know what the error exactly means. I have 240 MB of free space in /var. -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message