Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 16:25:42 -0700 From: Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> To: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sendmail is broken, how do I fix Message-ID: <200801041625.42685.af300wsm@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20080102151441.023c22d8@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <200801011017.21412.af300wsm@gmail.com> <200801021403.18813.af300wsm@gmail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20080102151441.023c22d8@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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On Wednesday 02 January 2008 14:18:53 Derek Ragona wrote:
> At 03:03 PM 1/2/2008, Andrew Falanga wrote:
> > > While you think there is nothing on that port something is running not
> > > letting that socket connection. Try rebooting the system and see if
> > > the problem is still there.
> > >
> > > -Derek
> >
> >I did try that too. Didn't work.
>
> Have you tried telnet to the IP and port 25? If it is sendmail, you can
> see that from the banner, also you can watch the maillog file in /var/log.
>
> I suspect you have another process tying up that port.
>
> -Derek
The problem seems to be sendmail itself. Here's what I've done to isolate the
problem.
1) changed /etc/rc.conf to NOT start sendmail or anything mail related
-- sendmail (external stuff, the local daemon still starts in
/etc/defaults/rc.conf)
-- dovecot
-- saslauthd
I know that saslauthd isn't exactly mail related but I installed it for
sendmail
2) rebooted the computer (and verified that it did actually reboot by using
uptime). I'm not sitting in front of this computer, I'm "ssh-ing" into it.
3) once restarted, I wrote a little C program to open a socket and then bind
the ip address 192.168.2.23 (the machines IP) and port 25 to that socket.
The effectiveness of this program was verified using sockstat. If necessary,
I will post the source code, but didn't see much need to now. The program
worked and the bind(2) call made no complaints.
4) Stopped ALL sendmail processes (/etc/rc.d/sendmail stop)
5) edited /etc/rc.conf and re-enabled the "external" sendmail process
6) Started sendmail and now see the exact same problems in /var/log/maillog:
see below
Jan 4 17:36:42 whitbap sm-mta[975]: starting daemon (8.13.8):
SMTP+queueing@00:30:00
Jan 4 17:36:42 whitbap sm-mta[975]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket:
daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Jan 4 17:36:42 whitbap sm-mta[975]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP socket
Jan 4 17:36:42 whitbap sm-msp-queue[979]: starting daemon (8.13.8):
queueing@00:30:00
Jan 4 17:36:42 whitbap sm-mta[978]: m010sNBM004564:
to=<jqyuehutmqluz@epilot.com>, delay=3+23:42:19, xdelay=00:00:00,
mailer=esmtp, pri=2555114, relay=mail02.interchangeusa.com. [63.251.210.81],
dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by mail02.interchangeusa.com.
Jan 4 17:36:47 whitbap sm-mta[975]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket:
daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Jan 4 17:36:47 whitbap sm-mta[975]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP socket
Jan 4 17:36:52 whitbap sm-mta[975]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket:
daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Jan 4 17:36:52 whitbap sm-mta[975]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP socket
Jan 4 17:36:57 whitbap sm-mta[975]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket:
daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Jan 4 17:36:57 whitbap sm-mta[975]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP socket
Jan 4 17:37:02 whitbap sm-mta[975]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket:
daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Jan 4 17:37:02 whitbap sm-mta[975]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP socket
Jan 4 17:37:07 whitbap sm-mta[975]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket:
daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Jan 4 17:37:07 whitbap sm-mta[975]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP socket
Jan 4 17:37:12 whitbap sm-mta[975]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket:
daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Jan 4 17:37:12 whitbap sm-mta[975]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP socket
Jan 4 17:37:17 whitbap sm-mta[975]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket:
daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Jan 4 17:37:17 whitbap sm-mta[975]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP socket
Jan 4 17:37:22 whitbap sm-mta[975]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket:
daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Jan 4 17:37:22 whitbap sm-mta[975]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP socket
Jan 4 17:37:27 whitbap sm-mta[975]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket:
daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Jan 4 17:37:27 whitbap sm-mta[975]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP socket
Jan 4 17:37:32 whitbap sm-mta[975]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket:
daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
Jan 4 17:37:32 whitbap sm-mta[975]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP socket
Jan 4 17:37:32 whitbap sm-mta[975]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket:
daemon MTA: server SMTP socket wedged: exiting
What does one do when sendmail is it's own worst enemy?
Any help is greatly appreciated because I don't understand at all what I could
have done to this. If necessary, I'll post my <hostname>.mc file for all to
read. Heck, I'll post whatever is necessary because this has to be working.
Andy
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