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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Subject: Re: sendmail locked, sync:no such user
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.125143.29431@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Organization: Northern Illinois University
- References: <1352000003@igc.apc.org>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 12:51:43 GMT
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- In article <1352000003@igc.apc.org> Charlie Rosenberg <crosenberg@igc.apc.org> writes:
- >
- >I noticed a load on the system and found sendmail running five
- >different times. syslog shows many of the locked messages listed
- >below. If I bring TCP/IP down, it will kill sendmail of course and
- >when it starts it back up again things are back to normal.
-
- In that case the "locked" messages are just messages already being
- processed by another sendmail. This is not a problem. If, after bringing
- sendmail down, there are still locked messages on restart, then you have
- some lock files that need deletion. However, with the symptoms you
- describe, this seems not to be the problem.
-
- >I also wondered what causes the inetd error listed below.
-
- ><27>Aug 17 11:38:14 inetd[12454]: getpwnam: sync: No such user
-
- Sounds like a bad entry in /etc/inetd.conf . Perhaps you need to read
- the documentation more clearly.
-
-