On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Jaye Mathisen wrote:
>
> Hmph. I'm stumped.
>
>
> running sendmail -bd -q30m just gets me back to a prompt, and nothign very useful
> in the logs.
>
> WHat am I missing?
>
> 2005-06-06 14:58:54 IPv6 socket creation failed: Protocol not supported
> 2005-06-06 14:58:54 Failed to create IPv6 socket for wildcard listening (Protocol not supported): will use IPv4
>
> This is normal, ipv6 isn't configured at all.
>
> c [14:59] local/etc/exim # sendmail
> Exim is a Mail Transfer Agent. It is normally called by Mail User Agents,
> not directly from a shell command line. Options and/or arguments control
> what it does when called. For a list of options, see the Exim documentation.
> c [15:01] local/etc/exim # sendmail -bd -q30m
> c [15:01] local/etc/exim # ps guaxww | grep sendmail
> root 7500 0.0 0.2 2320 1684 p1 RVJ 3:01PM 0:00.00 grep sendmail (csh)
> c [15:01] local/etc/exim # ls -l /var/run/exim.pid
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5 Jun 6 15:01 /var/run/exim.pid
> c [15:01] local/etc/exim # date
> Mon Jun 6 15:01:24 EDT 2005
> c [15:01] local/etc/exim #
>
Did you try:
ps -ajx | grep exim
...to see if _exim_ is running?
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