Re: Sendmail can't create server SMTP socket.

[Hugo Villeneuve <hugo_villeneuve_(_at_)_yahoo_(_dot_)_com>]

You disabled IPv6 support in your kernel, that's why.

MTA6 is the sendmail listener on IPv6. (Did you grep
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf?)

But look: /etc/mail/sendmail-IPv4only.cf they even provide you with an
alternate sendmail configuration file for folks without IPv6.

Just use the power of the "mv" command.


Hugo Villeneuve

Note:
1- I did receive correctly the first time your message, why send
   twice. It's only annoying.
2- "make build" is fun but from time to time a "cd /usr/src/etc ;
   make DESTDIR=/tmp/newroot distribution-etc-root-var" and some "diff"
   advanced usage in order to update /etc, /var  with new files and new
   changes is needed.


On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 12:13:31AM -0000, morten_(_at_)_hotpost_(_dot_)_dk wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've been running sendmail with the "-q30m" flags, and wanted to try to
> make sendmail listen on port 25, so i changed "-q30m" to "-bd -q30m" in
> /etc/rc.conf, rebooted.
> 
> Sendmail try start up, says (all there is in the logs):
> 
> Oct 29 01:23:25 pc89225 sendmail[983]: starting daemon (8.10.1): queueing_(_at_)_00:30:00
> Oct 29 01:25:49 pc89225 sendmail[20100]: starting daemon (8.10.1): SMTP+queueing
> @00:30:00
> Oct 29 01:25:49 pc89225 sendmail[20100]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA6: can't create server SMTP socket: Protocol not supported
> Oct 29 01:25:49 pc89225 sendmail[20100]: daemon MTA6: problem creating SMTP socket
> Oct 29 01:25:49 pc89225 sendmail[20100]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA6: server SMTP socket wedged: exiting
> 
> 
> !?
> What's going on? I've used it to send mail without any problems for more
> than a month runing current, having done a make build twice now (last
> time was 5-6 days ago with fresh -current source).
> 
> % uname -a
> OpenBSD pc89225 2.8 PC89225#2 i386
> 
> My kernelconfig isn't very different from GENERIC, only debugging stuff
> is taken out of it, together with everything NFS, COMPAT_SVR4  ...
> nothing networkrelated (sans NFS of course).
> 
> dmesg can be seen at http://home1.stofanet.dk/liebach/dmesg if you want
> to!
> 
> I haven't touched any files but /etc/mail/aliases WRT sendmail (and I
> did run 'newaliases' after that :-).
> 
> I really hope this is something I've overlooked, but I can't think of
> what ... and it's 2 AM now; goodnight! :-)
> 
> Regards
>                       Morten
> 
> -- 
> UNIX, reach out and grep someone!