can't ping localhost
mikel king
mikel.king at olivent.com
Thu Aug 19 16:22:09 UTC 2010
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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