Sendmail problems solved, Now settings changing on reboot.
Paul Guba
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue Aug 6 14:31:01 2002
That was it. It would have taken me forever to track that one down.
Many Thanks
On Tuesday, August 6, 2002, at 03:40 PM, Ken Schweigert wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 02:36:11PM -0400, Paul Guba wrote:
>> OK I figured it out its not a sendmail problem at all. When I start or
>> restart the system the DNS setting revert back to the original settings
>> when I configured the machine. The server is now running as a DNS so I
>> changed the settings to 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.2.3. These get lost each
>> time the machine restarts. I stopped named and sendmail changed to the
>> correct setting and restarted named and sendmail and all is well. So
>> the new question is why is this happening? Today I changed the setting
>> in K,system,network window. Where is the actual text file that contain
>> this info? Why would it be changing on restart?
>
> Check the contents of your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and
> see if you have entries for DNS1= and/or DNS2=. If they have values,
> remove them and just put them in /etc/resolv.conf This one bit me once
> and I wasted more time than I care to admit tracking it down.
>
> HTH
>
> -ken
>
>>
>>> I have had sendmail working nicely for many months. Recently I had to
>>> shutdown the server due to power outages. There is a battery backup
>>> and I was there to preform an graceful shutdown. When I restarted the
>>> localhost dns settings had changed. I reset that but I found that
>>> sendmail is no longer working. It will send mail to localhost but
>>> nothing outside server and relay does not work. DNS seems fine and
>>> all
>>> other services working as well Http, Ftp, Ssh. In the mail log there
>>> is this message " NOQUEUE: [66.114.66.188] did not issue
>>> MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA"
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> System is:
>>> 8500 G3 400
>>> YDL 2.1 stock kernel and package.
>>> Older version I know but was working very smoothly.
>>>
>>> P Guba
>>>
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