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Old February 24th, 2004, 06:47 PM
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Sendmail II
Hello... 'tis I again

BerkeleyDB and Sendmail are both installed and presumably run correctly.

# /usr/sbin/sendmail -db -q30m
# tail /var/log/maillog
Feb 24 14:56:16 CorpraServ sendmail[30232]: starting daemon (8.12.11): queueing@00:30:00

Hopefully Postal Cow (and anyone else!) can help me with some questions I have about Sendmail configuration.

My first question/obsticle is trying to talk to sendmail through telnet:

# telnet 127.0.0.1 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused

How can I make sure sendmail is listening to port 25?

... And here's another question I figured I'd toss in; it just sort of peaked my interest.

I ran a process status with -Al flags. Note the difference between the Apache and Sendmail processes:

# ps -Al
FÂ*SÂ*Â*Â*UIDÂ*Â*Â*PIDÂ*Â*PPIDÂ*Â*CÂ*PRIÂ*Â*NIÂ*AD DRÂ*SZÂ*WCHANÂ*Â*TTYÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â*TIMEÂ*CMD
5Â*SÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â*0Â*Â*5023Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*1Â*Â*0Â*Â*69Â*Â*Â *0Â*-Â*Â*1317Â*selectÂ*?Â*Â*Â*00:00:00Â*httpd
5Â*SÂ*Â*Â*Â*99Â*Â*5024Â*Â*5023Â*Â*0Â*Â*69Â*Â*Â*0Â* -Â*Â*1337Â*wait_fÂ*?Â*Â*Â*00:00:00Â*httpd
1Â*SÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â*0Â*30552Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*1Â*Â*0Â*Â*70Â*Â*Â* 0Â*-Â*Â*Â*863Â*pauseÂ*Â*?Â*Â*Â*00:00:00Â*sendmail

Apache is waiting for connections... but Sendmail seems to be paused. Is this correct?

-Tim
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Old February 25th, 2004, 12:40 AM
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RE: Sendmail II
Your starting sendmail just from bash or are you using a startup script in rc.d?
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Old February 25th, 2004, 01:08 AM
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RE: Sendmail II
You can see if sendmail is listening by using netstat -l and looking for port 25.

Also, to connect to sendmail, you can:

telnet 127.0.0.1:25
i think, its either that or telnet 127.0.0.1 25

from there, you can end commands like the ehlo, etc etc.
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Old February 25th, 2004, 02:10 PM
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RE: Sendmail II
For now I'm starting sendmail from a bash prompt. I won't set up an rc script until I can get things working how I want them.

# netstat -l
ActiveÂ*InternetÂ*connections (only servers)
ProtoÂ*Recv-QÂ*Send-QÂ*LocalÂ*AddressÂ*ForeignÂ*AddressÂ*State
tcpÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*0Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*0Â**:timeÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â *Â*Â*Â*Â**:*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*LISTEN
tcpÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*0Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*0Â**:fingerÂ*Â*Â*Â *Â*Â*Â**:*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*LISTEN
tcpÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*0Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*0Â**:httpÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â *Â*Â*Â*Â**:*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*LISTEN
tcpÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*0Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*0Â**:authÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â *Â*Â*Â*Â**:*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*LISTEN
tcpÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*0Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*0Â**:ftpÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â* Â*Â*Â*Â*Â**:*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*LISTEN
tcpÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*0Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*0Â**:sshÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â* Â*Â*Â*Â*Â**:*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*LISTEN
udpÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*0Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*0Â**:biffÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â *Â*Â*Â*Â**:*
udpÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*0Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*0Â**:ntalkÂ*Â*Â*Â* Â*Â*Â*Â**:*
udpÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*0Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*0Â**:timeÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â *Â*Â*Â*Â**:*
Active UNIX domain sockets (only servers)
ProtoÂ*RefCntÂ*FlagsÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â*TypeÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â*State *Â*Â*Â*Â*I-NodeÂ*Path
unixÂ*Â*2Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*[Â*ACCÂ*]Â*Â*Â*STREAMÂ*Â*Â*LISTENINGÂ*329Â*Â*Â*Â*/dev/gpmctl

Sendmail doesn't even seem to be listening!
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Old February 25th, 2004, 02:13 PM
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RE: Sendmail II
and its not! How exactly are you starting it.
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Old February 25th, 2004, 02:49 PM
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RE: Sendmail II
# /usr/sbin/sendmail -db -q30m
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Old February 25th, 2004, 03:09 PM
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RE: Sendmail II
you cant do service sendmail start????
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Old February 25th, 2004, 03:43 PM
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RE: Sendmail II
I will eventually set up an inetd script to start sendmail at boot. But right now I want to get set up, troubleshoot and properly configure the installation.

-Tim
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Old February 25th, 2004, 03:53 PM
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RE: Sendmail II
The latest RPM for sendmail has chkconfig support, which usually means the startup scripts are already done....less work for you.
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Old February 25th, 2004, 04:38 PM
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RE: Sendmail II
Thanks, but I'm compiling from source and running Slackware.

-Tim
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Old February 26th, 2004, 04:04 PM
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RE: Sendmail II
Tim,

PM me your email address, I am going to give you a startup script you can run from bash. Try it that way.
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Old February 27th, 2004, 03:35 PM
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RE: Sendmail II
Thanks Postal Cow,

I received your email this morning, but I think some modifcations will have to be made for the script to work under slackware.

# cp ./sendmail.dat /etc/rc.d/sendmail.dat
# cd /etc/rc.d
# chmod +x sendmail.dat
# ./sendmail.dat start

./sendmail.dat: line 14: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: No such file or directory
./sendmail.dat: line 17: /etc/sysconfig/network: No such file or directory
./sendmail.dat: line 28: [: =: unary operator expected
Starting sendmail: ./sendmail.dat: line 49: daemon: command not found
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RE: Sendmail II
I forgot you were running slackware (brain fart). Let me look into this and I'll be back to you later today. What I emailed you won't work... obviously so
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Old February 27th, 2004, 06:29 PM
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RE: Sendmail II
Stupid Slack!

I chose to go Slackware when I upgraded the server for several reasons, most notibly a cleaner platform for compiling. It's a trade off, though... the sysV system is nice.

On the brighter side, Slack's default installation of vi is a bit less forgiving and has forced me to learn more than just a,D,dd,y and P!

Maybe I should just code my own mail server program. lol

-Tim
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Old February 27th, 2004, 06:33 PM
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RE: RE: Sendmail II

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On the brighter side, Slack's default installation of vi is a bit less forgiving and has forced me to learn more than just a,D,dd,y and P!

Solaris is the same way....you can however compile vim for slack, I believe.
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