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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Subject: Re: sendmail/IDA startup problem Help wanted.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.020857.6327@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Organization: Northern Illinois University
- References: <BuFqvC.2sF@Sweden.Prime.COM>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 02:08:57 GMT
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- In article <BuFqvC.2sF@Sweden.Prime.COM> hakan@Sweden.Prime.COM (Hakan Sjogren) writes:
- >
- >I then started the process by sendmail -bd -q15m .
- >Sendmail never starts, the process list has an entry
- >"waiting for connection" .
-
- I am not sure what your problem is. Sendmail is supposed to be waiting for
- a connection. Try 'ps -cax' to list command names rather than the command
- line, or recompile without SETPROCTITLE is seeing the "waiting for connection"
- message disturbs you.
-
- You can also check whether the daemon is running with
- telnet localhost smtp
- quit
-
-