[pca] Latest Solaris10 patches

Jeff Wieland wieland at purdue.edu
Thu Feb 17 20:40:26 CET 2011


If you ever start using IPv6, you'll probably want to uncomment the line.

little help wrote:
> Thanks - I will give it a try.  Is there any side effect of commenting 
> this out? 
> As per the BugID the workaround was
>
> svccfg -s sendmail setprop config/local_only=false
>
> *Description* 	
> --------------------------------
> sendmail[1581]: daemon MTA-v6: problem creating SMTP socket
> sendmail[1581]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA-v6: cannot bind: Cannot assign requested address
>
> --------------------------------
>
> these are printed into console and cause problem during expect automation.
> Similar problem is described in CR *6722022* but only on local zones in Nevada, however root cause is the same ipv6 lo0 interface is not present on S10, but value config/local_only is set to true, therefor sendmail tries to bind to ipv6 interface which fails.
>
> grep DaemonPortOptions /etc/mail/sendmail.cf <http://sendmail.cf> on S10 nightly s10u9_2010-02-18(RE) or s10u9_2010-02-21(RE) is reporting the same as on Nevada:
> -------------------------------
> # grep DaemonPortOptions /etc/mail/sendmail.cf <http://sendmail.cf>
>
> O DaemonPortOptions=Name=MTA-v4, Family=inet
> O DaemonPortOptions=Name=MTA-v6, Family=inet6
> O DaemonPortOptions=Port=587, Name=MSA, M=E
> -------------------------------
>
> We did just the standard install, no modification to sendmail configurations.
> *Work Around* 	
> change config/local_only property of sendmail to false or bring up inet6 lo0 interface
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Jeff Wieland <wieland at purdue.edu 
> <mailto:wieland at purdue.edu>> wrote:
>
>     little help wrote:
>
>         It appears the latest solaris10 patches/kernel update split
>         sendmail into two separate services (client and server).
>          However, once I reboot my host I get the error below.  I
>         found a bug on this but it states it has been fixed in
>         svn_103.  Being that I am running an earlier version it appear
>         my only option is a workaround noted on the bug report.  Has
>         anyone else seen this issue and do you know if there is a fix
>         on the way?  Thanks.
>
>         opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA-v6: server SMTP socket wedged:
>         exiting
>         daemon MTA-v6: problem creating SMTP socket
>
>
>     Yep.  It's because you don't have IPv6 configured, but your
>     sendmail.cf <http://sendmail.cf>
>     is trying to use it anyway.  Check your sendmail.cf
>     <http://sendmail.cf> file for the following
>     line:
>
>     O DaemonPortOptions=Name=MTA-v6, Family=inet6
>
>     comment it out, and clear the error with svcadm.
>
>     -- 
>             Jeff Wieland            |         Purdue University
>      Network Systems Administrator  |        ITN&S Data Networks
>          Voice: (765)496-8234       |        155 S. Grant Street
>           FAX: (765)494-6620        |   West Lafayette, IN 47907-2115
>
>
>


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          Jeff Wieland            |         Purdue University
   Network Systems Administrator  |        ITN&S Data Networks
       Voice: (765)496-8234       |        155 S. Grant Street
        FAX: (765)494-6620        |   West Lafayette, IN 47907-2115




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