Sendmail not listening correctly

Mike Loiterman mike at ascendency.net
Mon Sep 19 22:41:04 PDT 2005


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> First, keep in mind that these parameters only define how sendmail starts
when the system is rebooted.
>
> Second, stop any sendmail processes.
>
> Third, start sendmail with the correct cf (config) file.  It should be
/etc/mail/freebsd.cf. 
> It is created from /etc/mail/freebsd.mc.  The former is for sendmail only
(do not peek) and the
> latter is for you to read.  When submit_only is ON, freebsd.submit.cf
(generated from
> freebsd.submit.mc) is used.  You should investigate the mc files and learn
how to generate cf files from them.

I tried rebooting and that's when I get those errors.

I tried doing a:

#cd /etc/mail && make stop && killall -9 sendmail

The config file I'm using is made from $hostname.cf.  That's where I make
all my changes.

I don't know why but somehow there is something else listening on 25 but I
can't figure out what:

# sockstat | grep sendmail 
# cd /etc/mail && make start 
Starting: sendmail sendmail-clientmqueue. 
# sockstat | grep sendmail 
 smmsp    sendmail   727   3  dgram  -> /var/run/log 
 root     sendmail   724   3  dgram  -> /var/run/logpriv 
 root     sendmail   724   4  tcp4   *:25                  *:* 
 root     sendmail   724   5  tcp6   *:25                  *:* 
# tail -f /var/log/maillog
 Sep 20 00:38:18 eisenhower sm-mta[724]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP
socket 
 Sep 20 00:38:23 eisenhower sm-mta[724]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use 
 Sep 20 00:38:23 eisenhower sm-mta[724]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP
socket 
 Sep 20 00:38:28 eisenhower sm-mta[724]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use 
 Sep 20 00:38:28 eisenhower sm-mta[724]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP
socket 
 Sep 20 00:38:33 eisenhower sm-mta[724]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use 
 Sep 20 00:38:33 eisenhower sm-mta[724]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP
socket 
 Sep 20 00:38:38 eisenhower sm-mta[724]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use 
 Sep 20 00:38:38 eisenhower sm-mta[724]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP
socket 
 Sep 20 00:38:38 eisenhower sm-mta[724]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: server SMTP socket wedged: exiting 


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