Sendmail hand upon boot and restart

[Gary Kline]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:07:11AM -0500, Eric Crist wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of
> > Steve Bertrand
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 8:32 AM
> > To: Gary Kline
> > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: Sendmail hand upon boot and restart
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > After a year I'm finally upgrading DNS servers, and having
> > > a bad time getting sendmail and dhcp to work.  I may finally
> > > have dhcp woking on ns1.thought.org.   ping works and my
> > > /var/log/maillog is filling up.  But on tao.thought.org, sendmail
> > > refuses to start.  Can anybody help me ith this?
> >
> > First we need to create a baseline...Do you get any error
> > messages, or does sendmail just appear to hang? Can you ping
> > from this machine? Do you have a firewall setup on the box?
> > Do you have 'sendmail_enable="YES"' in /etc/rc.conf?
> >
> > Do the following and perhaps post the output so we know what
> > stage in the game you are at:
> >
> > # cat /etc/resolv.conf
> > # dig freebsd.org
> > # dig @204.101.251.2 freebsd.org
> >
> > Every time I have had sendmail problems, it has always come
> > back to DNS failures.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > >
> > > I'm swsapping out my Linksys NIC between my old DNS server and the
> > > new.  Wih the 10/100 card in the  old server, thinks work
> > flwlessly;
> > > in the new they don't.
> > >
> > > Any ideas on what I need to configure, and hw?
> > >
> 
> Something else that would really help would be to edit your
> /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file on the line that starts with LogLevel.  It is
> probably set to 9.  Change this value to 20 or so, and from /etc/mail,
> type make restart.
> 
> View the end of your /var/log/maillog file by typing the following
> command, and post these results to the list:
> 
> # tail -n 50 /var/log/maillog
> 
> This will help us see if there is anything going on.  Adding the output
> of 'date' at the time you ran the above command would help as well.
> 


	Right; my maillog was getting loaded with output (at LogLevel==15)
	but it said that mail to kline at tao was being denied.  Prob'ly
	because dhcp esd not ruunning.

	more later, hopefully!!!

	gary
> 
> 

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