can't ping localhost

[mikel king]

Your lo0 only has inet6 addresses, perhaps try binding a v4 address?

Cheers,
m!

On Aug 19, 2010, at 11:12, Tim Kellers <kellers at njit.edu> wrote:

> On 08/19/10 11:02, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>> On 19/08/2010 15:21, Tim Kellers wrote:
>>   
>>> I'm eagerly open to suggestions.
>>> 
>>>     
>> What does 'ifconfig lo0' say?
>> 
>> What does 'sockstat | grep :25' say?
>> 
>> What does 'ls -la /usr/libexec/sendmail/' say?
>> 
>> What does 'mount | grep /usr' say?
>> 
>> It sounds as if either:
>> 
>>    * Your loopback interface has lost address 127.0.0.1
>> 
>> or:
>> 
>>    * Some process other than a live sendmail instance has bound to port
>>      25 on the loopback.
>> 
>> or:
>> 
>>    * sendmail has somehow lost its setgid-ness
>> 
>>    Cheers,
>> 
>>    Matthew
>> 
>>   
> # ifconfig lo0
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> 
> (lo0 looks unconfigured to me)
> 
> # sockstat | grep :25
> root     sendmail   7371  3  tcp4   *:25                  *:*
> root     sendmail   7371  5  tcp6   *:25                  *:*
> 
> (that looks fine to me)
> 
> # ls -la /usr/libexec/sendmail/
> total 676
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel     512 Mar 30 21:03 .
> drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel    1536 Mar 30 21:03 ..
> -r-xr-sr-x  1 root  smmsp  669788 Mar 30 21:03 sendmail
> 
> (looks OK to me, too)
> 
> # mount | grep /usr
> /dev/aacd0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> 
> (Looks normal to me, too)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tim Kellers
> 
> 
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