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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:04:43 -0500 From: Tony Baldwin <tonybald...@gmx.com> To: t...@tonybaldwin.org Subject: [tonybald...@gmx.com: Re: smtp/postfix/sasl/openssh headaches] User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) ----- Forwarded message from tony baldwin <tonybald...@gmx.com> ----- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:25:46 -0500 From: tony baldwin <tonybald...@gmx.com> To: debian english <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: smtp/postfix/sasl/openssh headaches > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Andrei Popescu > Sent: 01/11/12 05:01 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: smtp/postfix/sasl/openssh headaches > > On Mi, 11 ian 12, 16:41:33, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > > > but according to lsof and netstat, as far as I can tell, the only > > > > thing using port 25 is the smtp server. > > > > > > "The" smtp server is obviously not "the" stmp server you think it is. > > > > > > > sudo lsof -i :25 > > > > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME > > > > sendmail- 10742 root 3u IPv4 14207 0t0 TCP localhost.localdomain:smtp > > > > (LISTEN) > > > > My understanding is that postfix has something with the same name. > > From my box (squeeze and postfix): > > # lsof -i :25 > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME > master 12339 root 12u IPv4 631016 0t0 TCP localhost:smtp (LISTEN) > > Something is listening to port 25, but it is not postfix. Please run > > aptitude search ~Pmail-transport-agent~i > RESOLVED! Even with sendmail removed, apparently a sendmail process was hogging port 25. I killed sendmail (kill -9 $pid), and restarted postfix, and now everything is working as it should! (see? I'm sending this from said server, having altered my list subscription). ./tony -- http://www.tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120112020729.ga27...@deathstar.hsd1.ct.comcast.net
