[cobalt-users] Re: Re: [RaQ2] SMTP server failure after RaQ2-All-Security Release update

[Mike Scioli <mscioli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Message: 7
>From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Organization: Front Street Networks LLC
>To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] [RaQ2] SMTP server failure after
RaQ2-All-Security Release update
>Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 04:28:31 -0400
>Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>On Wednesday 15 May 2002 11:04 pm, Mike Scioli wrote:
><snip>
>> Last evening, several hours after these updates were installed, the active
>> monitor light began flashing and the SMTP was reported missing in action.
>> RaQ2-All-Security Release 4.0.1-13453
>>  RaQ2-All-Security-4.0.1-9769 
>> I have stopped and restarted sendmail several times*.  It works for a short
>> period then quits again.
>>
>> * telnet in
>>   su - root
>>   /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
>>   /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start
>>
><snip>
>
>Are you really using telnet?
>I have these pkgs on my system for sometime now and did not have a problem
>telnet is not secure, is there anything else wrong with the system.
>Maybe you should run chkrootkit
>
>-- 
>Gerald Waugh 
>http://www.frontstreetnetworks.com :: Phone. [011] 203.785.0699
>Front Street Networks LLC | SOHO Networks & Web Site Hosting
>229 Front Street, Ste. #C, New Haven, CT, 06513-3203 United States

1) ;-(  Consider me duly chastised.  Yes, I am really using telnet.  When I
have this problem out of the way, I will go the openSSH route.

2) Web server and DNS appear to working normally.  I usually delay a bit
before installing updates to see which of the gurus on the list report
problems ["I'm an ecologist, Jim.  I'm not a network administrator!"].
This is the first of the updates that has caused me such grief.

3) I'm working on compiling chkrootkit-0.35 right now.  Assuming, for the
moment, that the server is not rooted, what else to look for/at to get the
SMTP service up and running?  For the brief periods that the SMTP server
runs after a restart, a few messages are trickling through.


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