sendmail sometimes refuses connections.. anyone have simular problem

[Julian Field]

At 15:35 12/07/2002, you wrote:
>I know mailscanner runs a script every hour via cron to check its pid..
>I'm wondering if it sometimes has difficulty starting the sendmail daemon
>if it had to..

The hourly cron job doesn't do anything with sendmail at all.

>I'm not quite sure why this happens. I have read my maillogs, xfer logs,
>kernal messages, and find nothing to conclude this issue. This morning I
>started to receive calls that sendmail was down. Our web based email could
>send mail but client email programs were being refused.. Obviousley that
>ment sendmail was running fine right? I restarted Mailscanner for the hell
>of it, and now both web based mail and client email clients can send.. So
>its gotta be sendmail right? or maybe it had some effect on the xinitd?
>Anyone here know this problem? This has been happening on and off ever
>since I installed mailscanner. Though it could be a coincidence that it
>started after the install, I'm not sure.
>
>Thanks For your Help!
>
>In a world without walls or fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
>
>

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ
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