Sendmail hand upon boot and restart

[Eric Crist]

> -----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.



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Eric F Crist