Strange Error
J
bundled up Sendmail included with the server software. I'm seeing an error
in the log that is throwing me a bit. The error has to do with Bad File
Descriptor:
Dec 1 15:57:13 mail sendmail[3376]: jB10b7Ht008703: to=
<scru...@scrubbed.com>, delay=23:19:49, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp,
pri=229383, relay=mailin-03.mx.aol.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Bad file
descriptor
I've searched for an answer to this but I've come up empty handed.This is
the first time I've come up against this sort of error. I can take one of
the messages and send it directly out using the sendmail -qI<qid>. What
causes this error and how can I fix it?
Thanks in advance for the help!
Tim
> I've just put together a new mail server running Redhat Linux 4 and the
> bundled up Sendmail included with the server software. I'm seeing an error
> in the log that is throwing me a bit. The error has to do with Bad File
> Descriptor:
>
> Dec 1 15:57:13 mail sendmail[3376]: jB10b7Ht008703: to=
> <scru...@scrubbed.com>, delay=23:19:49, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp,
> pri=229383, relay=mailin-03.mx.aol.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Bad file
> descriptor
>
Something very wrong with scrubbed.com. Doing a DNS lookup gets:
tim@marvin:~$ dig scrubbed.com ns
; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> scrubbed.com ns
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 22384
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;scrubbed.com. IN NS
;; ANSWER SECTION:
scrubbed.com. 7200 IN NS ns1.hitfarm.com.
scrubbed.com. 7200 IN NS ns2.hitfarm.com.
;; Query time: 4413 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.13.254#53(192.168.13.254)
;; WHEN: Fri Dec 2 18:10:28 2005
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 74
tim@marvin:~$ dig scrubbed.com mx @ns1.hitfarm.com.
; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> scrubbed.com mx @ns1.hitfarm.com.
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62458
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;scrubbed.com. IN MX
;; ANSWER SECTION:
scrubbed.com. 7200 IN MX 10 nullmx.scrubbed.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
nullmx.scrubbed.com. 7200 IN A 127.0.0.1
;; Query time: 218 msec
;; SERVER: 64.40.102.32#53(64.40.102.32)
;; WHEN: Fri Dec 2 18:10:41 2005
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 69
I suspect that they don't really want to receive *any* email, if they are
advertising the loopback address 127.0.0.1 for their mail server.
It may pay to send an email to the DNS admins at hitfarm.com
(hostm...@hitfarm.com) asking them if the IP address is correct for that
server.
> I've searched for an answer to this but I've come up empty handed.This is
> the first time I've come up against this sort of error. I can take one of
> the messages and send it directly out using the sendmail -qI<qid>. What
> causes this error and how can I fix it?
>
> Thanks in advance for the help!
Tim
J
news:pan.2005.12.02....@netscape.net:
Sorry, shoulda mentioned I took out the actual address when I posted my
question. It's all different domains that I receive this error for when
I try to send. Anything from AOL to Yahoo. If I send it out
individually, the mail messages tend to go out. Please help!
Rob
I am in the same position, I've got a server with Redhat 4 and Sendmail
and in my mail queue, I have messages stacking up with the error
Deferred: Bad file descriptor
The emails are all TO aol.com addresses.
Apart from that the server is sending email perfectly.
This has only started happening in the last week and I can't figure out
what the problem is
Have you had any luck
Cheers
Rob
Claus Aßmann
> I've just put together a new mail server running Redhat Linux 4 and the
> bundled up Sendmail included with the server software. I'm seeing an error
Which version?
> in the log that is throwing me a bit. The error has to do with Bad File
> Descriptor:
If you have a version older than 8.13.5: upgrade.
If you have 8.13.5: is the problem reproduceable? If so, please give
more details how you get this error. Note: sometimes this is "just" a
bogus error message (as the error code (errno) isn't always cleared),
but sometimes sendmail 8 doesn't deal with all "wierd" ways how the
SMTP dialogue can be "broken". See the release notes for examples.
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is too lazy to trim his article, and it's wasting the time of all readers.
J
<ca+sendmail(-no-copies-please)@mine.informatik.uni-kiel.de> wrote in
news:dmpp3h$r66$1...@obelix.informatik.uni-kiel.de:
Thanks Claus, I installed the newest version of Sendmail (8.13.5) and
I'm watching it. So far it seems to be working fine. If I have any more
problems I will post again. Thanks!
Rob
Just wondering if upgrading to 8.13.5 has fixed this problem of the
"Bad File Descriptor".
I am running 8.13.1.
Did you have any problems with the upgrade?
Cheers
Rob
J
Sorry for taking a while to get back to you, but upgrading to the newest
version of sendmail did seem to work for me. Knock on wood, everything
seems to work fine.