Confused operator, server down ...

[Julian Field]

At 10:32 17/01/2003, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I was having some problems with one of myservers, one of those where every
>time you think you have it solved, something else breaks as soon as your back
>is turned. (Or as soon as you go to bed.) Right now, the mail isn't moving at
>all.
>
>This is RedHat 7.2, Sendmail 8.12.16, MailScanner 4.11-1. All of this was
>recently working, although most of it got upgraded during the thrashing
>around, and there's no telling what I might have stepped on along the way.
>
>"service MailScanner restart" fires off two copies of sendmail, one for
>incoming and one for outgoing. Both appear in the "ps aux" looking like
>normal. One says "sendmail: accepting connections" and the other says
>"sendmail: Queue runner at 00:05:00 for /var/spool/mqueue". There's precious
>little in /var/spool/mail, so Queue runner could be running just fine.
>
>Everything in both sendmail.mc and submit.mc looks rational, although I don't
>have a copy from a week ago to compare with. Both are set to localhost,
>127.0.0.1.
>
>If I send a message outside the system from the command line it never gets
>there. Messages from outside aren't getting in, I just got a notice that a
>message I sent 24 hours ago hasn't been delivered, "Connection refused."
>
>Telnet to port 25 from outside also gets "Connection refused."

That will be because you set the DaemonOptions to only listen on localhost,
127.0.0.1.

>Mail to root should be delivered to vanhorn, according to the aliases file,
>but messages from cron to root end up in /var/spool/mail/root, so the
>aliases.db isn't getting used, although there is no error on running
>newaliases.

Do
sendmail -bv root
to see where sendmail will actually try to deliver the message.

>Messages from the command line (sendmail vanhorn <test_message.txt) do not
>get delivered.

Again, do a
sendmail -bv vanhorn
to see what sendmail thinks.


>Mail that has been spooled for users (i.e., /var/spool/mail/vanhorn ) can be
>retrieved with POP clients without problem.
>
>What am I missing?
>
>Van
>
>
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