Mail from ILUG-BOM list (Non-Digest Mode) _______________________________________________ On RH6. sendmail suddenly started refusing connections on port 25. ps ax|grep sendmail couldn't find it. I didn't try telnetting to port 25, but the scripts which were using it do connect a socket on port 25. One script was peacefully running and suddenly died. It did hit a couple of "Use of uninitialised value" warnings, though. When I ran the script again with a different set of parameters, I got the same sendmail error (did not respond with 220). Running the script again after restarting sendmail made it work fine. The load average was within limits (well under 2, and I've seen sendmail start refusing when it hits around 8-10). I did this: [root]~# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart Shutting down sendmail: [ OK ] Starting sendmail: [ OK ] [root]~# Note that shutting down sendmail succeeded according to the script. After restart, it is working. What happened? -- Satya. <URL:http://satya.virtualave.net/> US-bound grad students! For pre-apps, see <URL:http://quickapps.cjb.net/> If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. _______________________________________________ Website: http://www.ilug-bom.org.in/ Linuxers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
