Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ1 SMTP down

[Dom Latter <d.latter@xxxxxxx>]

Michael Hart wrote:
> 
> email server is not operating... is not collecting mail, the following

<snip>

> I have tried to both restarting and rebooting with no luck...... HELP
> PLEASE.....

Time to get your hands dirty... telnet into your Raq.  (NB I have a Qube 1).

How is your disk space looking?  Try a "df".

Try to telnet to port 25 from another machine, e.g.:
root@othermachine:> telnet 194.201.254.222 25                           
Trying 194.201.254.222...
Connected to 194.201.254.222.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 bod.san.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.8/8.8.8; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:50:10 +0100

What happens if you stop and start manually?  E.g. 
cd /etc/rc.d/rc3/d
./S80sendmail stop
./S80sendmail start

and perhaps check your log files immediately afterwards:
"ls -ltr /var/logs" to see which has changed most recently.

Just some ideas.