[svlug] sendmail help

[scott bakalor]

now we are getting somewhere :-)

turned it off in xinetd

tried to start and got this

[root at hijinksdesign prog]# /usr/lib/sendmail -bd
Warning: Option: AuthOptions requires SASL support (-DSASL)

- Scott

The following message was sent by William Black <wjblack at yahoo.com> on Tue, 2 Oct 2001 10:19:10 -0700 (PDT).

> If it's working in xinetd but not as a standalone
> daemon, then:
> 
> 1.  Turn it off in xinetd (set the activate flag to
> "no", run "/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart".  I've
> noticed that "killall -HUP xinetd" seems to be
> insufficient for some reason).
> 2.  Run just "/usr/lib/sendmail -bd".  Hopefully you
> either won't get any errors onscreen, or you will and
> they'll be obvious.
> 3.  Check out the output of "netstat -l".  Port 25
> should have something listening on it.
> 4.  Telnet to port 25.
> 
> If step 4 works, then all should be well on reboot. 
> If not, then it's a matter of what step it failed at.
> 
> --bj
> 
> --- scott bakalor <scott at hijinks.com> wrote:
> > I specifacally turned the firewall off and when I
> > run sendmail through xinetd it does accept
> > connections.
> > 
> > [root at hijinksdesign scott]# ps aux | grep mail  
> > root      7848  0.0  0.5  2524 1336 ?        S   
> > 09:26   0:00 sendmail: server 
> > root      7851  0.0  0.5  2524 1336 ?        S   
> > 09:27   0:00 sendmail: server 
> > 
> > If i turn off xinetd do a reboot I can not get any
> > connections to the sendmaileven though it is in the
> > bootup.
> > 
> > I am running this command in xinetd
> > /usr/sbin/sendmail -bs
> > 
> > - Scott
> 
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