sendmail is broken, how do I fix

[Andrew Falanga]

>
> With sendmail generating the errors above, post the results of this:
> # sockstat | grep ":25"


whitbap# /etc/rc.d/sendmail start
Starting sendmail.
whitbap# sockstat | grep :25
root     sendmail   1133  3  tcp4   *:25                  *:*
root     sendmail   1133  5  tcp6   *:25                  *:*
whitbap# sockstat | grep :25
root     sendmail   1133  3  tcp4   *:25                  *:*
root     sendmail   1133  5  tcp6   *:25                  *:*
whitbap# sockstat | grep :25
root     sendmail   1133  3  tcp4   *:25                  *:*
root     sendmail   1133  5  tcp6   *:25                  *:*
whitbap# sockstat | grep :25
root     sendmail   1133  3  tcp4   *:25                  *:*
root     sendmail   1133  5  tcp6   *:25                  *:*
whitbap# sockstat | grep :25
root     sendmail   1133  3  tcp4   *:25                  *:*
root     sendmail   1133  5  tcp6   *:25                  *:*
whitbap# sockstat | grep :25
root     sendmail   1133  3  tcp4   *:25                  *:*
root     sendmail   1133  5  tcp6   *:25                  *:*
whitbap# sockstat | grep :25
whitbap#                             

I kept on doing this until the daemon died with the same error as before.

Andy