Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> John --
>
> I just got a similar problem description from a friend who runs Debian. From
> his message, his problems seemed to be associated with an upgrade he did
> that might have changed some shared libraries. That got me wondering about
> your case -- did installing either the new kernel or the radio package mess
> with the libraries at all?
The new kernel and radio package were installed in October. I have not been
aware of any library problem.
> Do the apps that no longer work share calls to
> some library not used by the ones that still work (you can check this with
> "ldd appname" ... assuming, of course, that ldd itself still works)?
ldd is not working. When I do "ldd sendmail" I get:
"ldd: ./sendmail: no such file"
Using othe applications gets that same response.
> As to the smtp and http problems ... are the apps (sendmail and httpd)
> running or not ("ps aux | grep send" and "ps aux | grep http")?
httpd is running, ten processes. I'm not sure what sendmail is doing. For "ps
aux | grep sendmail" I get a list of seven processes and all of them have
"sendmail: rejecting c" in the last column.
If not, what
> happens when you try to start them (as root) from the command line?
>
> sendmail -bd -q15
> for httpd, you'll need to see how it is invoked from some rc script -- the
> needed command line switches vary by distribution.
>
Yesterday at Richard's suggestion I did "/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q 15m" I got
"rejecting connections on port 25: min free: 100"
Today I get nothing. Also nothing when I omit the "m".
> If yes, do the logs show any reports that might help explain the failures?
Nothing helpful in /var/log/dmesg. In /var/log/messages just lots of pppd
entries looking fo the modem since I've been using my mac for Netscape.
In /var/log/httpd/access_log the last entry is Jan 2
"....get /HTTP 1.0 200 14". That's interesting since I accessed my form in
Apache from my sister's computer in Walnut Creek on Jan 5.
In /var/log/httpd/error_log I have these three lines when I rebooted yesterday:
"httpd: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
created shared memory segment #0
Server configured -- resuming normal operation."
When I run my CGI from the prompt I get no error indication.
> And with respect to find and locate, what does "fail" mean? Does nothing
> happen? Do you get a message like "bash: /usr/bin/find: No such file or
> directory"? Does the app itself give you some error message? Does it run but
> give you a bad result? Or something I'm not thinking of?
With locate I get nothing. With find I get:
"No such file or directory"
In connection with locate I saw the command "updatedb" in one of my books. I
tried it yesterday and got:
"sort: write error: no space left on device"
Today when I try it I get that same line plus an additional line:
"updatedb: new database would be empty"
It looks like this should be a clue but I don't even know what "device"
refers to.
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