[Mailman-Users] Qrunner probs. with Sendmail

[Dave Klingler]

Whew.  That was subtle.  Thanks for the heads up, Dan and Steve.  I had been 
procrastinating on telneting into port 25 because it'd been so long since I'd 
done it I couldn't remember what I would do afterward.  I wish I'd tried that 
first.

I had some extra carriage returns in my inetd.conf.  The arguments didn't show 
up in a ps because the lines were long enough that they got truncated.
so I thought the right processes were actually running with the arguments 
intact.

So inetd would start up tcp_virtuald (a virtual tcp wrapper) which would start 
up the sendmail with bogus, truncated arguments.  Qrunner would run and then 
exit without (I thought) leaving much to go on, although in retrospect it was a 
big red flag.  Luckily I popped into my inetd.conf just to check things one 
last time.  I started to turn all the virtual wrapper stuff off and (good thing
I use vi) noticed that a "$" didn't take me to the end of a line.  Doh!

So thanks!  You put me on the right track.

Dave Klingler

> 
> Well, I'd trace the execution of a manual qrunner, then, and find out
> what it's doing, if not calling sendmail.  If there's *nothing* in
> the MTA logs, then how are you getting this failure?....
> 
> 
> > Hi Dan.  Thanks for the help.  Unfortunately, the domain IS listed in 
> > sendmail.cw.  That was a good guess, though, and I'd never hold you to 
> > the bet.  ;)
> > 
> > There isn't anything showing up in the MTA logs.  Qrunner just runs, then
> > happily exits.  Sigh.
> > 
> > Thanks again!
> > Dave Klingler
> > 
> > > Dave Klingler wrote:
> > > >  What
> > > > I get in the "post" log is
> > > > 
> > > > Mar 13 14:27:27 2001 (17741) post to test from 
> mailman-owner at beersellers.net, si
> > > > ze=1315, 1 failures
> > > > 
> > > > The "smtp" log contains
> > > > 
> > > > "Mar 13 14:27:27 2001 (17741) All recipients refused: Connection 
> unexpectedly closed
> > > > Mar 13 14:27:27 2001 (17741) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.240 seconds
> > > 
> > > So this is a problem with your MTA, so you checked your MTA logs, right?
> > >  
> > > > and yet I can send myself simple tests using "mail [recipient].
> > > > 
> > > > Anyone have any ideas?
> > > 
> > > Yup.  Bet you a dollar your domain isn't listed in sendmail.cw.
> > > 
> > 
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