[svlug] Fetchmail

[javilk@polly.mall-net.com]

>  ]     So now that question comes down to, why is sendmail not starting...

> Did you see it being started at boot time?
> When is the last sendmail activity you see in your syslog?  Does this
> correspond with your reboot?

   Seems that way...

> Do you see any syslog messages that indicate that it might have crashed?
> If you are using RH 5, do you have the "/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S80sendmail"
> symlink?  If not, have you tried "/sbin/chkconfig sendmail on"?  If it
> is there, does "/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart" successfully [re]start
> sendmail?

chkconfig returns:
error reading information on service sendmail: No such file or directory

     This is SuSE Linux.  It runs in init 2 instead of init 3 like Red
Hat.  Turbo is the same way.  Init 3 gives you an XWindows login, init 2
gives you character mode logins, which I much prefer. 

    When sendmail didn't send a bunch of things to some hosts that just
were not on the net often, I set up a sendmail -q in my crontab to insure
that things keep trying to connect.

    BUT... fetchmail WAS giving me mail till I shut down when I wiped out
the aliases file.  I was going to remount the drive on another machine and
try drastic recovery by scanning the disk blocks in raw mode.  Then I
realized I probably didn't have to go quite that far... and put the
machine back on line.

> ...many other questions which could be asked.
 
     Ask away, some of us might learn something.

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