sendmail does'nt work anymore

[A.K.]

Suddenly the sendmail on my N4000 with HPUX 11.00 does not working anymore or didn???t work for a while.
In /var/adm/mail.log the last records I got are from Dec 2002
The send mail Version 8.9.3
My sendmail.cf configured thru DS mail relay to the network mail server
When I telnet the network mail server thru port 25
root@xxx:/root>telnet .com 25
Trying...
Connected to xxxxxx.com
Escape character is '^]'.
220 Mail ESMTP Server Ready at Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:55:21 -0500 (EST)
I guess this mean that it is not firewall issue right?
I noticed that when I try to sent email thru mailx they got stuck in mailq .
and mail.log file don???t get updated .
I know from past experience that when there is some problems in sending the emails the mail.log file will have a record on that
BTW I tried start/stop the sendmail daemon,
Anyone have an idea?
Thanks,

[John Dvorchak]

Have you tried stopping and starting sendmail then looking in /var/adm/syslog/mail.log for any kind of hint.

[A.K.]

yes I did,there is nothing new in the log.

[David Bell_1]

From your host, try

sendmail -v
TESTING!!
.


That should show you what it's doing to send the mail message.

Hope that Helps,

Dave

[A.K.]

Hi again,
this is what I got
xxxx.com: Name server timeout
my_name@my_domain... Transient parse error -- message queued for future delivery

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

First stop and restart the sendmail by ,

/sbin/sinit.d/sendmail stop and /sbin/init.d/sendmail start

Secondly see if your server resolves the your mail server by it dns name , use nslookup command

-USA..

[Steven E. Protter]

/usr/sbin/sendmail -v -d8.99 -d38.99 name@somenetwork.net

Run this command, adjusting for the target address.

Type in a line, hit enter
.
enter

This will give you pretty good diagnostics.

Past experience tells me there was a change in the DNS/Network environoment.

check /etc/resolv.conf
/etc/nsswitch.conf

nslookup important_server

Run and come back with more info if this doesn't lead to resolution.

SEP

[A.K.]

The IP address that was mentioned in /etc/resolv.conf was not recognized
I added new route and now the DNS is working correctly
I started the sbin/init.d/sendmail again stop/start
But still nothing, I noticed that in /var/adm/syslog/mail.log there is problem (old problem)

Dec 9 23:23:04 sendmail[4714]: WAA03185: SYSERR(root): Error writing control file tfWAA03185: No space left on device
Dec 9 23:54:04 sendmail[6932]: WAA03185: queueup: cannot create tfWAA03185, uid=0: File exists
Dec 10 00:01:49 sendmail[6932]: WAA03185: SYSERR(root): Error writing

[Tom Danzig]

Check to make sure /var isn't full. If it is, clean out /var/tmp and whatever else you can.

[A.K.]

Hello again,
I checked already that my /var is not full ,it is 83%.
It looked like my log files are stale (syslog.log ,mail.log).
When I issue the following command this is what I got
/usr/sbin/sendmail -v -d8.99 -d38.99 @

root@:/var/adm/syslog>/usr/sbin/sendmail -v -d8.99 -d38.99 @
seq_map_parse(aliases.files, )
map_init(sequence:aliases.files, NULL, 0)
sequence:aliases.files NULL: valid
map_init(implicit:Alias0, /etc/mail/aliases, 0)
wrong pass (pass = 0, rebuildable = 1)
map_init(host:host, NULL, 0)
host:host NULL: valid
map_init(switch:aliases, aliases, 0)
switch_map_open(aliases, aliases, 0)
switch_map_find => 1
files
map_stack[0] = sequence:aliases.files
switch:aliases aliases: valid
map_init(dequote:dequote, NULL, 0)
dequote:dequote NULL: valid
map_init(host:resolve, NULL, 0)
host:resolve NULL: valid
map_init(sequence:aliases.files, NULL, 1)
wrong pass (pass = 1, rebuildable = 0)
map_init(implicit:Alias0, /etc/mail/aliases, 1)
impl_map_open(Alias0, /etc/mail/aliases, 0)
hash_map_open(Alias0, /etc/mail/aliases, 0)
impl_map_lookup(Alias0, @)
db_map_lookup(Alias0, @)
implicit:Alias0 /etc/mail/aliases: valid
map_init(host:host, NULL, 1)
wrong pass (pass = 1, rebuildable = 0)
map_init(switch:aliases, aliases, 1)
wrong pass (pass = 1, rebuildable = 0)
map_init(dequote:dequote, NULL, 1)
wrong pass (pass = 1, rebuildable = 0)
map_init(host:resolve, NULL, 1)
wrong pass (pass = 1, rebuildable = 0)
getcanonname, trying files
text_getcanonname
getcanonname, trying dns
dns_getcanonname(, trymx=1)
dns_getcanonname: trying . (ANY)
YES
dns_getcanonname:
getcanonname(), found
.
getmxrr(, droplocalhost=1)
getmxrr: res_search() failed (errno=0, h_errno=1)
getcanonname(), trying files
text_getcanonname()
getcanonname(), trying dns
dns_getcanonname(, trymx=0)
dns_getcanonname: trying . (ANY)
NO: errno=0, h_errno=1
dns_getcanonname: trying . (ANY)
NO: errno=0, h_errno=1
getcanonname(), failed, stat=68
@... Host unknown (Name server: : host not found)
seq_map_lookup(aliases, root)
seq_map_lookup(aliases.files, root)
impl_map_lookup(Alias0, root)
db_map_lookup(Alias0, root)
root... forward: /root/.forward.+: World writable directory
root... forward: /root/.forward+: World writable directory
root... forward: /root/.forward.: World writable directory
root... forward: /root/.forward: World writable directory
/root/dead.letter... Saved message in /root/dead.letter
closemaps: closing aliases.files (NULL)
closemaps: closing Alias0 (/etc/mail/aliases)
impl_map_close(Alias0, /etc/mail/aliases, 12a3)
db_map_close(Alias0, /etc/mail/aliases, 12a3)
closemaps: closing host (NULL)
closemaps: closing aliases (aliases)
closemaps: closing dequote (NULL)
closemaps: closing resolve (NULL)

In the mailq I get
Mail Queue (1 request)
--Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
ABC25478 (no control file)

Please ,anyone has an idea what is the problem ?
Thanks in advance !!!