Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nims From: nims@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Christopher Nims) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: 554 System file missing Keywords: sendmail Message-ID: <3447@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Date: 12 Feb 91 16:00:18 GMT Sender: nims@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Organization: Northwestern University Lines: 45 We're running sendmail-5.65+IDA-1.3.5 on a uVax II running Mt.Xinu 4.3 BSD. This machine is being used as a mailhost for many worstations on campus and recently many users are getting messages bounced back with the following info in the header: ... 451 makeconnection: server "smtp" unknown: Address already in use 554 casbah.acns.nwu.edu (tcpld)... 554 System file missing 554 ... System file missing ... One problem is that we can't find a deterministic method of reproducing the problem. If a message bounces, quit often sending it a second time will get it through. One more piece of information...when running sendmail in address test mode, no matter what sendmail.cf I try (I grabbed a couple from a couple other machines just to test them) it gives the following information: accuvax 128 # /usr/lib/sendmail -bt ADDRESS TEST MODE Enter
[Note: No initial ruleset 3 call] > 0 nims@acns.nwu.edu rewrite: ruleset 0 input: nims @ acns . nwu . edu rewrite: ruleset 3 input: nims @ acns . nwu . edu rewrite: ruleset 8 input: nims @ acns . nwu . edu rewrite: ruleset 8 returns: nims @ acns . nwu . edu rewrite: ruleset 6 input: nims < @ acns . nwu . edu > rewrite: ruleset 6 returns: nims < @ accuvax . nwu . edu > rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: nims < @ accuvax . nwu . edu > rewrite: ruleset 6 input: nims < @ accuvax . nwu . edu > rewrite: ruleset 6 returns: nims < @ accuvax . nwu . edu > rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# local $: nims > Even though it gives the Note about ruleset 3, it still seems to work. Any advice would be helpfull. Thanks. =============================================================================== Christopher D. Nims Chris_Nims@nwu.edu Distributes Systems Services Academic Computing and Networking Services: Northwestern University