[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
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>
>
>
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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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