1.3.93 (+?) and sendmail 8.6.12 problems.

Greg Patterson (root@gomer.mlink.net)
Wed, 8 May 1996 00:26:34 -0400 (EDT)

I'm having some annoying problems with sendmail 8.6.12 running under the
recent Linux kernels. Wondering if these problems I'm having are related
to the pipe handling changes which were made recently.

>From messages log:

May 7 23:52:26 gomer sendmail[17425]: timeout waiting for input from
wolverine.hq.cic.net during server cmd read

>From syslog log:

Apr 24 22:55:38 gomer sendmail[14903]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: putoutmsg
(gomer.mlink.net): error on output channel sending "503 Need MAIL
command": Broken pipe
Apr 24 22:55:38 gomer sendmail[14903]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: putoutmsg
(gomer.mlink.net): error on output channel sending "500 Command
unrecognized": Broken pipe

>From ps output:

17600 ? S 0:00 sendmail: server wolverine.hq.cic.net cmd read
17603 ? S 0:00 sendmail: server wolverine.hq.cic.net cmd read
17604 ? S 0:00 sendmail: server wolverine.hq.cic.net cmd read
17607 ? S 0:00 sendmail: server wolverine.hq.cic.net cmd read
17608 ? S 0:00 sendmail: server wolverine.hq.cic.net cmd read

Sometimes, I've seen more than 10 of these kicking around at any given
time. When I saw the broken pipe messages I thought of the recent pipe
discussions.

Any clues?

Greg.