On Wed, 2016-12-28 at 20:02 +0100, SZÉPE Viktor wrote: > Good evening! > > I am investigating a strange monitoring phenomenon. > localhost (lo interface) is monitored on port 25 with a program > called Monit. > Monit generates a very small SMTP communication. > Usually it is OK. > > When the Internet-facing interface (eth0) is down - for some reason > but not DHCP - the test fails. > > Of course couriertcpd binds on 127.0.0.1 only as "ADDRESS=127.0.0.1" > > Could it be that Courier unbinds from localhost when eth0 is down? > Thanks.
I also use Monit, although not to monitor the status of lo. I would look, for the source of this phenomenon, to the configuration stanza in /etc/monit/monitrc (or one of the config subfolders of /etc/monit). -- Lindsay Haisley | "UNIX is user-friendly, it just FMP Computer Services | chooses its friends." 512-259-1190 | -- Andreas Bogk http://www.fmp.com | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
