Auteur: Kai Henningsen Date: À: exim-users Sujet: Re: [Exim] SMTP service not found error
J.Horne@??? (John Horne) wrote on 05.12.00 in <XFMail.001205114546.john@???>:
> We're running Exim 3.20 on a Sun Solaris 7 system, and received the
> following error message in our panic.log yesterday:
>
> 2000-12-04 12:25:26 142udt-0001kD-00 TCP service "smtp" not found
> 2000-12-04 12:25:26 142udt-0001kD-00 TCP service "smtp" not found
> 2000-12-04 12:25:26 142udt-0001kD-00 TCP service "smtp" not found
> [snipped]
> 2000-12-04 12:25:27 142udt-0001kD-00 TCP service "smtp" not found
>
> As can be seen this only lasted for a second or so. The main.log had:
> So, anyone any ideas? The mail service I should add carried on fine a second
> or so after the error messages appeared. No one was playing with the
> configure file (we'd have seen a SIGHUP in the logs I assume for any change
> to take effect). The /etc/services file is never touched - no need to, and
> yes, 'smtp' is in it (we'd have no mail at all if it wasn't! :-) ) For those
> with a good memory, yes I did report something similar a long time ago now
> (probably about a year or so). We found no reason for that instance either.
Just an idea - obviously getservbyname() needs to open a file, so is it
possible the system was out of filehandles?