Restarting:/etc/rc.sendmail: restart-mta: /var/run/sendmail.pid not found sendmail-c

c00kie · Apr 28, 2013

Hi.

I'm here again but hopefully Unix gets easier.

I'm trying to reinstall/restart my MTA afresh; getting back to base settings really so I can at least try to send/accept mail from internal users/external hosts (i.e. Yahoo, Gmail etc) to my FreeBSD server.

# cd /etc/mail
# mv hostname.mc hostname.mc.bak
# make

Pause for a second; I am correct in thinking that *my* hostname.mc file is actually: my.fullyqualifieddomain.com.mc or the result of # hostname?

Advice: (Add only the bare minimum required to run to hostname.mc, like smart hosting. It may not need anything.)

Stood in /etc/mail.

# make all install restart
and
# service sendmail status

Code:

sendmail is not running.
sendmail_clientmqueue is running as pid 51326.

# make restart

Code:

Restarting:/etc/rc.sendmail: restart-mta: /var/run/sendmail.pid not found
 sendmail-clientmqueue.

OK, so where do I find/copy/generate/obtain a copy of /var/run/sendmail.pid?

wblock@ · Apr 28, 2013

After moving the existing hostname.mc, run make. It will show the name of the .mc file it creates.

/var/run/sendmail.pid is automatically created when sendmail is started.

c00kie · Apr 29, 2013

wblock@ said:
After moving the existing hostname.mc, run make.

I'm a little behind here. I don't have/see a hostname.mc file?

pwd
/etc/mail

ls

Code:

Makefile			freebsd.submit.cf		submit.cf
README				freebsd.submit.mc		virtusertable
access				helpfile			virtusertable.db
access.db			local-host-names		virtusertable.sample
access.sample			mailer.conf			me.mydomain.org.cf
aliases				mailertable.sample		me.mydomain.org.mc
aliases.db			relay-domains			me.mydomain.org.mc.bak
freebsd.cf			sendmail.cf			me.mydomain.org.submit.cf
freebsd.mc			statistics			me.mydomain.org.submit.mc

Are we talking about me.mydomain.org.mc?

c00kie · Apr 29, 2013

OK, I'm satisfied its me.mydomain.org.mc

Stood in /etc/mail I build my .mc file.

make

Code:

cp freebsd.mc me.mydomain.org.mc
/usr/bin/m4 -D_CF_DIR_=/usr/share/sendmail/cf/   /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 me.mydomain.org.mc > me.mydomain.org.cf

Try and start Sendmail:

make start

Code:

Starting: sendmail554 5.3.5 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 279: Unknown address family inet6 in Family=option
 sendmail-clientmqueue.

I dont want to have to edit /etc/mail/sendmail.cf directly. Can you advise how to remove

Code:

line 279: Unknown address family inet6

this issue?

kpa · Apr 29, 2013

What kind of system is this? All recent and supported versions of FreeBSD come with inet6(4) support built in.

wblock@ · Apr 29, 2013

Edit me.mydomain.org.mc. Change

Code:

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=IPv6, Family=inet6, Modifiers=O')

to

Code:

[color="Red"]dnl[/color] DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=IPv6, Family=inet6, Modifiers=O')

Rebuild, install, and restart:

# make all install restart

c00kie · Apr 29, 2013

I've followed that to the letter. It still is being a b*&%$ though.

make all install restart

Code:

/usr/bin/m4 -D_CF_DIR_=/usr/share/sendmail/cf/   /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 my.domain.org.mc > my.domain.org.cf
install -m 444 my.domain.org.cf /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
install -m 444 my.domain.org.submit.cf /etc/mail/submit.cf
Restarting:/etc/rc.sendmail: restart-mta: /var/run/sendmail.pid not found
 sendmail-clientmqueue.

/var/run/sendmail.pid should be automatically created when sendmail is started?

wblock@ · Apr 29, 2013

Yes. The message will be seen if sendmail was not already running. Now that you have it built and installed, try restarting it again:
# make restart

c00kie · Apr 29, 2013

wblock@ said:
Yes. The message will be seen if sendmail was not already running. Now that you have it built and installed, try restarting it again:
# make restart

pwd

Code:

/etc/mail

make restart

Code:

Restarting:/etc/rc.sendmail: restart-mta: /var/run/sendmail.pid not found
 sendmail-clientmqueue.

make restart

Code:

Restarting:/etc/rc.sendmail: restart-mta: /var/run/sendmail.pid not found
 sendmail-clientmqueue.

make restart

Code:

Restarting:/etc/rc.sendmail: restart-mta: /var/run/sendmail.pid not found
 sendmail-clientmqueue.

c00kie · Apr 29, 2013

kpa said:
What kind of system is this?

FreeBSD 9.0

kpa · Apr 29, 2013

Actually you want to use just make start or service sendmail start if there's no process already running. make restart is a shortcut for make stop; make start and if there's no running process there won't be a pid file either.

wblock@ · Apr 30, 2013

Is it still not running? Wait... is Sendmail enabled in /etc/rc.conf?

Code:

sendmail_enable="YES"

What does /var/log/maillog show?

c00kie · Apr 30, 2013

wblock@ said:
Is it still not running? Wait... is Sendmail enabled in /etc/rc.conf?

Code:

sendmail_enable="YES"

What does /var/log/maillog show?

service sendmail status

Code:

sendmail is not running.
sendmail_clientmqueue is running as pid 54990.

/etc/rc.conf

Code:

sendmail_enable="YES"

cat /var/log/maillog | less reveals a huge amount of messages of this nature:

Code:

Apr 30 00:04:22 web sm-msp-queue[55711]: r3TJCSRQ054573: to=root, delay=08:51:54, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=16146366, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
Apr 30 00:06:06 web sm-msp-queue[55716]: r3S7U6v1048411: to=1cookie, ctladdr=admin (1004/1004), delay=1+20:36:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=74820038, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
Apr 30 00:31:34 web sm-msp-queue[55758]: r3S7IYfI048384: to=myaccount@yahoo.com, ctladdr=admin (1004/1004), delay=1+21:13:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=75720070, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
Apr 30 01:31:34 web sm-msp-queue[55893]: r3SCRuwi050158: to=1cookie, delay=1+17:03:38, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=69241431, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]

It looks like the problem lies with

Code:

Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]

It's not a firewall issue as my VPS providers opened the ports that Sendmail is listening on.

c00kie · Apr 30, 2013

kpa said:
Actually you want to use just make start or service sendmail start if there's no process already running. make restart is a shortcut for make stop; make start and if there's no running process there won't be a pid file either.

Hang on!

make start

Code:

Starting: sendmail sendmail-clientmqueue.

service sendmail status

Code:

sendmail is running as pid 55984.
sendmail_clientmqueue is running as pid 54990.

I *think* this means it's started successfully

kpa · Apr 30, 2013

Verify with sockstat(1) that sendmail(8) is indeed listening for connections on correct addresses.

c00kie · Apr 30, 2013

kpa said:
Verify with sockstat(1) that sendmail(8) is indeed listening for connections on correct addresses.

# sockstat

Code:

USER     COMMAND    PID   FD PROTO  LOCAL ADDRESS         FOREIGN ADDRESS 
smmsp    sendmail   55987 3  dgram  -> /var/run/log
root     sendmail   55984 3  tcp4   *:***                 *:*
root     sendmail   55984 4  dgram  -> /var/run/logpriv
root     sendmail   55984 5  tcp4   *:***                *:*
smmsp    sendmail   54990 3  dgram  -> /var/run/log
smmsp    sendmail   54492 3  dgram  -> /var/run/log
smmsp    sendmail   48495 3  dgram  -> /var/run/log
smmsp    sendmail   48465 3  dgram  -> /var/run/log
smmsp    sendmail   48460 3  dgram  -> /var/run/log

All would appear well. Thanks.