Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ira.uka.de!THD-News!mnl From: mnl@idtsun.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de (Michael N. Lipp) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: what is net hang? Message-ID: Date: 20 Jun 91 14:28:56 GMT Sender: news@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de (The Usenet-News System) Organization: TH-Darmstadt Lines: 27 Hi, we have SunOS-4.1-sendmail running on two hosts, marlowe being the mailhost, spade a client with its spool/mail NFS-mounted. We repeatedly get "net hang"-messages like these: Jun 20 02:35:02 marlowe sendmail[9572]: AA09569: locked Jun 20 02:58:01 marlowe sendmail[9569]: AA09569: SYSERR: net hang reading from spade.dtro.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de: Connection timed out during collect with spade.dtro.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de Jun 20 02:58:02 marlowe sendmail[9569]: AA09569: message-id=<9106200028.AA09569@digtec.dtro.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de> Jun 20 02:58:02 marlowe sendmail[9569]: AA09569: from=, size=22056, class=0 Can anybody tell me what "net hang" is? The two are on the same ethernet (and spade being /usr-NFS-client couldn`t run without marlowe anyway). So the net should work. When tested by hand, mailing on the machines works flawlessly. Looking at the dates, someone suggested that it is "batch -m" that sends the offending messages. But what could batch do when execing sendmail that makes sendmail fail that way? Thanks in advance Michael -- -----------------,------------------------------,------------------------------ Michael N. Lipp ! Institut fuer Datentechnik ! Phone: 49-6151-163776 ! Merckstr. 25 ,----------' Fax: 49-6151-164976 ! D-6100 Darmstadt ! E-Mail: (xdatmnlx@ddathd21.bitnet) ! (Germany) ! mnl@dtro.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de -----------------'-------------------'-----------------------------------------