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

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 16 May 2002 11:59 am, Mike Scioli wrote:
> 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.

Look at the log files and see if you see any errors
/var/log/messages /var/log/mailog

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