sendmail issue

Emanuel Strobl emanuel.strobl at gmx.net
Wed Feb 9 07:20:09 PST 2005


Am Mittwoch, 9. Februar 2005 16:15 schrieb saravanan ganapathy:
> Hai ,
>
> I am using 5.3 release with updated all the ports.
>
> I am facing a problem with sendmail.
>
> # pkg_info | grep sendmail
> sendmail-8.13.3     Reliable,....
> # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sendmail.sh start
> # netstat -an | grep 25
> tcp6    0  0  *.25     *.*         LISTEN
> tcp4    0  0  *.25     *.*         LISTEN
> # telnet 127.0.0.1 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'
> 220 ....ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.3/8.13.1;
>
> It works fine. But I also found that another sendmail
> which is in /etc/rc.d/sendmail

Sendmail is part of the FreeBSD base system. I don't know if the prot disables 
the base sendmail, you can always add 'sendmail_enable="NONE"' to 
your /etc/rc.conf.

-Harry

>
> If I do
> # /etc/rc.d/sendmail start
>
> Then this also create a new socket as
>
> #netstat -an | grep 25
> tcp4    0  0  127.0.0.1.25  *.*    LISTEN
> tcp6    0  0  *.25     *.*         LISTEN
> tcp4    0  0  *.25     *.*         LISTEN
>
> If I do again
>
> # telnet 127.0.0.1 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'
> 220 ....ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.13.1;
>
> How two sendmail(8.13.1 & 8.13.3) installed in my
> system?
> If I remove sendmail-8.13.3 using pkg_deinstall,
> pkg_info shows no sendmail. But still I can start
> /etc/rc.d/sendmail.
>
> What may be the problem?
>
> Please help me
>
> Sarav
>
>
>
>
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