Re: [cobalt-users] Sendmail Problem

[SM <nntp@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 23:48 29-09-2001 +0530, Pradeep Serro wrote:
>I have an RAQ3i, and till recently, everything was functioning perfectly !
>However, since the past 2 weeks, almost everyday, I get a message from the
>server saying that the SMTP server is not functioning !
>On telnetting to the server, and doing a "ps -aux", I notice processes
>similar to the following :
>
>root      1841  0.0  0.2  2408 1408 ?        S    22:28   0:00 sendmail:
>server [203.199.140.89] child wait

It looks like Sendmail was working when you did the ps.  After getting that
email, log into the server and telnet localhost 25 to see whether you have
a Sendmail banner.  Type QUIT and press Enter to exit back to the shell.


>on killing those entries, the SMTP service starts working again !

The server will restart Sendmail if it does not see it not running.

>However, after a number of hours, it happens again. Further, the IP
>addresses are also not the same every time !

The IP addresses are the people/servers connected to your server to relay
mail.  They will be different unless you only exchange mail with one
person.  Did you check your maillog to see whether anyone was abusing the
mail server?

Regards,
-sm