topic sendmail error in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail error

Isaac_4 — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:51:43 GMT

Hi :
I having this error in the /var/adm/syslog.log

The problem is about the sendmail service

Oct 12 11:10:59 crrssv02 sendmail[342]: starting daemon (8.9.3 (PHNE_29773)): qu

eueing@00:30:00

Oct 12 11:10:59 crrssv02 sendmail[345]: starting daemon (8.9.3 (PHNE_29773)): SM

TP+queueing@01:00:00

Oct 12 11:11:00 crrssv02 sendmail[348]: starting daemon (8.9.3 (PHNE_29773)): SM

TP+queueing@01:00:00

Oct 12 11:11:00 crrssv02 sendmail[348]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket:

cannot bind: Address already in use

Oct 12 11:11:00 crrssv02 sendmail[348]: problem creating SMTP socket

Pls Help me !!!

Re: sendmail error

RAC_1 — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:05:19 GMT

The error message explains it all. Sendmail uses port 25 (by default)

On your system something is using port 25.
Check which process is using it.

netstat -an|grep 25

If you have lsof tool(list open files) on your machine, you can do
lsof -p tcp:25
lsof -p udp:25

Unless you change the port or stop the process using port 25, you will not be able to start sendmail.

Anil

Re: sendmail error

Geoff Wild — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:09:17 GMT

Is sendmail already running?

ps -ef |grep sendmail

Use lsof to see what is using port 25.

Rgds...Geoff

Re: sendmail error

Isaac_4 — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:47:16 GMT

these are my out from netstat but no see the port 25 in any way

# netstat -an | grep 25

tcp 0 0 *.49259 *.* LISTEN

tcp 0 0 *.49258 *.* LISTEN

# ps -ef | grep sendmail

root 854 795 4 14:33:58 pts/ta 0:00 grep sendmail

root 840 1 0 14:33:37 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -q30m

root 849 827 2 14:33:42 ? 0:04 /etc/iscan/sendmail

root 827 1 0 14:33:35 ? 0:04 /etc/iscan/sendmail

root 850 827 4 14:33:43 ? 0:04 /etc/iscan/sendmail

root 843 1 0 14:33:38 ? 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections

on port 19000

root 846 1 0 14:33:38 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h -C/e

tc/mail/sendmail.cf.delivery

who can test if the port 25 is open a listen

Re: sendmail error

RAC_1 — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:52:05 GMT

You already have sendmail running. There are few of them.

telnet localhost 25

Will tell if sendmail is running on that host or not.

Anil

Re: sendmail error

Isaac_4 — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:01:45 GMT

yes is running

Re: sendmail error

Geoff Wild — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:11:20 GMT

kill it

/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop

Try that a couple of times...

ps -ef|grep sendmail

If still there - kill it manually by it's pid

Rgds...Geoff