[ale] sendmail dying

[Brian K. Murphy]

I did both of these...no strange messages in the "messages" log and no core
files...hmm..any other thoughts?? this is really strange.

Keith Murphy

----- Original Message -----
 From: "Mike Fletcher" <fletch at phydeaux.org>
To: "Brian K. Murphy" <bmurphy at powerh.net>
Cc: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] sendmail dying


> >>>>> "Brian" == Brian K Murphy <bmurphy at powerh.net> writes:
>
>     Brian> I have a question for all the gurus out there.  I have a
>     Brian> client with a redhat 5.2 setup that is basically running
>     Brian> apache and sendmail.  Recently (about a week or so ago if I
>     Brian> recall) sendmail just died.  Shutdown..kaput.  I thought it
>     Brian> was a fluke so I "./sendmail restart" and went on my merry
>     Brian> way.  Well, yesterday it did it again.  It's not really a
>     Brian> high volume site or mail server and I am stumped.  Any
>     Brian> suggestions??
>
>         Check /var/{log,adm}/mail and ..../messages to see if there's
> any error messages.  Look for core files in the directory sendmail was
> started from (or do a `find / -name core -print|xargs file|grep sendmail'
> and see if there's any lying around in strange places).
>
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