Strange mail.log messages

[Craig Rants]

Anyone ever seen this before, it is causing mail.log to fill /var vary quickly.

Mar 1 10:00:54 crotalus sendmail[18981]: NOQUEUE: 0: fl=0x0, mode=20666: CHR:
size=0
Mar 1 10:00:54 crotalus sendmail[18981]: NOQUEUE: 1: fl=0x1, mode=20666: CHR:
size=0
Mar 1 10:00:54 crotalus sendmail[18981]: NOQUEUE: 2: fl=0x1, mode=20666: CHR:
size=0
Mar 1 10:00:54 crotalus sendmail[18981]: NOQUEUE: 3: fl=0x2, mode=140000: SOC
K [[UNIX: /var/spool/sockets/pwgr/client18981]]->(Socket is not connected)
Mar 1 10:00:54 crotalus sendmail[18765]: NOQUEUE: 4: fl=0x10001, mode=10666:
FIFO: size=6144
Mar 1 10:00:54 crotalus sendmail[18765]: NOQUEUE: 5: fl=0x2, mode=140000: SOC
K [0.0.0.0]/0->[0.0.0.0]/0


Thanks for the info,
Craig

[Corthouts Carlo]

Hello,


Probably sendmail connections in SYN_RCVD state (waiting
on a SYN_ACK)..... Eventually, they timeout.

You should check if all the SYN_RCVD are from outside the network (remote connections) going through a firewall/router or something else.

I know of one case where it resolved temporarly by restarting the daemon.