Sendmail version 8.13.3

[frank jordan_1]

I just completed installing Sendmail version 8.13.3. After starting Sendmail (/sbin/init.d/sendmail start), I received the following "console" message - "d800 sm-mta[7998]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon Daemon0: server SMTP socket wedged: exiting" Can anyone explain the message and if configurable, what would be the configuration change(s). - Thanks

[Alex Glennie]

http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-6611/ch02s10.html

If you attempt to invoke Sendmail when a Sendmail daemon is already running, the following message may be logged to the syslog file:

NO QUEUE: SYSERR (root) opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: server SMTP socket wedged: exiting

This message means that a Sendmail daemon is already running. You can use either /sbin/init.d/sendmail stop or killsm to stop the running daemon.

[frank jordan_1]

Thanks for the reply - question. Below is a series of commands, stopping and restarting sendmail. The message display immedinatedly after starting sendmail.


root@d800:/etc/mail # ps -ef|grep sendmail
root 8433 1901 1 15:03:13 pts/0 0:00 grep sendmail
root@d800:/etc/mail # /sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
Sendmail not running
Sendmail client not running
root@d800:/etc/mail # /sbin/init.d/sendmail start
Starting sendmail [ OK ]
Starting sm-client [FAILED]
Jan 18 15:03:28 d800 sm-mta[8459]: daemon Daemon0: problem creating SMTP socket

For more information see /var/adm/syslog/mail.log
root@d800:/etc/mail # ps -efJan 18 15:03:33 d800 sm-mta[8459]: daemon Daemon0: problem creating SMTP socket
|grep sendmail
root 8469 1901 0 15:03:38 pts/0 0:00 grep sendmail
root 8459 1 0 15:03:28 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30m

[Alex Glennie]

Whilst I look into new message you did move into place the newer version on your sendmail.cf file right ?

[frank jordan_1]

I guessing the installation did that for me.

[Alex Glennie]

contents of /var/adm/syslog/mail.log ?

[Alex Glennie]

Qu : was sendmail installed previously ?

what is the sm-client daemon : explanation :

http://www.webservertalk.com/archive58-2004-4-173501.html

thoughts : permission problem somewhere, mail.log my yield more clues, check syslog.log too just in case

[Michael Steele_2]

Can you paste in this information?

a) sendmail -bs
b) grep version /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
c) Did you make a copy of your old sendmail.cf file?
d) From your desktop 'telnet hostname 25'. Is there a connection to the smtp port?
e) Any port forwarding or forwarding of email going on?
f) netstat -a | grep 25
Is port 25 listening?
h) grep DS sendmail.cf
Get name of mail relay server and ping it, etc.

[VK2COT]

Hello,

What are permissions and ownerships of:

/var/spool/clientmqueue
/var/spool/mqueue

Cheers,

VK2COT

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

By default new sendmail installations only permit mail traffic to be accepted on localhost

This queues up system messages which are in general delivered to local users and does not allow for much else.

Recent sendmail releases began to require the dameon for sendmail be running to move even local mail. This was not a requirement in previous verions. In previous verions the mail would be queued and could be sent later with a cron job that ran the queue runner. sendmail -q


The message itself appears to come from one of a few sources:
1) An outside system is attempting to send mail to this system which is not permitted by the default sendmail configuration.
2) The system itself is trying to send messages and the sendmail daemon is not running.
3) If you have configured sendmail to listen on an IP address not configured on the system this condition can occur.

SEP