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From: rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Listen on port 25 dies: problem solved?
Message-ID: <1991May31.120301.11002@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
Date: 31 May 91 12:03:01 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command
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Last week I posted that the listen process for port 25 was dying for
uknown reasons using sendmail-5.65b+IDA-1.4.3.  I still don't know exactly
why this was happening, especially since ps -ef showed the daemon was still
active, just that netstat -a no longer showed a *.smtp LISTEN process. I
switched back to the vanilla 5.59 that came with WIN/TCP 3.0.1 on this machine
and it worked fine but I needed the pathalias stuff.  When comparing the .cf
files for the two versions, I noted that the load average (OX) parameter was
15 for the 5.59 version, but the .m4 file I used to create the 5.65b version
used a value of 7.  Increasing the value to 15 for 5.65b+IDA seems to allow
it to work.

Hope this can be of use to others who may have experienced similar troubles.
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