F14 Sendmail hard of hearing

[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX]

After upgrading to a 3 terabyte hard drive, I reinstalled
Fedora 14 and can't get Sendmail to listen on the usual
network interfaces.  The usual trick of commenting out
the 127. line no longer was sufficient.  I had to
ecplicitly give a port command in sendmail.mc:

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=70.89.176.169, Name=MTA')dnl

This only works for one interface - loopback and local net
are no listened to.  The following strange squawks from network
restart may be relevan:

[root@omen ~]# service network restart
Shutting down interface eth0:  Device state: 3 (disconnected)
                                                            [  OK  ]
Shutting down interface eth1:  Device state: 3 (disconnected)
                                                            [  OK  ]
Shutting down loopback interface:  Error: Device 'lo' not found.
                                                            [FAILED]
Bringing up loopback interface:                            [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth0:  Active connection state: activated
Active connection path: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/2
                                                            [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth1:  Active connection state: activated
Active connection path: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/3
                                                            [  OK  ]

[Scott Doty]

On 04/08/2011 01:06 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> After upgrading to a 3 terabyte hard drive, I reinstalled
> Fedora 14 and can't get Sendmail to listen on the usual
> network interfaces.  The usual trick of commenting out
> the 127. line no longer was sufficient.  I had to
> ecplicitly give a port command in sendmail.mc:
>
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=70.89.176.169, Name=MTA')dnl

Not sure what's going on -- perhaps more security updates to Sendmail 
upstream? -- but you should be able to use "0.0.0.0" to listen on all 
addresses, if that is what you were after...

-Scott

[Jaroslav Skarvada]

---- Original Message -----
> On 04/08/2011 01:06 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> > After upgrading to a 3 terabyte hard drive, I reinstalled
> > Fedora 14 and can't get Sendmail to listen on the usual
> > network interfaces. The usual trick of commenting out
> > the 127. line no longer was sufficient. I had to
> > ecplicitly give a port command in sendmail.mc:
> >
> > DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=70.89.176.169, Name=MTA')dnl
>
> Not sure what's going on -- perhaps more security updates to Sendmail
> upstream? -- but you should be able to use "0.0.0.0" to listen on all
> addresses, if that is what you were after...
>
> -Scott

AFAIK nothing important changed in sendmail in comparison to F13, changelog 
f13-f14 follows

Jaroslav

Changelog:
* Thu Jul 08 2010 Jaroslav Škarvada  - 8.14.4-9
- added license to milter subpackage according to new Licensing
  Guidelines

* Mon Jun 14 2010 Jaroslav Škarvada  - 8.14.4-8
- all 'define' changed to 'global' in spec
- perl interpreter path fixup moved from 'install' to 'prep'

* Fri Jun 11 2010 Jaroslav Škarvada  - 8.14.4-7
- silenced warning about non-existing config in {_libdir}/sasl2

* Tue Jun 08 2010 Jaroslav Škarvada  - 8.14.4-6
- sasl2 config moved from {_libdir}/sasl2 to {_sysconfdir}/sasl2
- added libdb5 patch for building with libdb-5
- rebuilt with libdb-5

* Mon May 31 2010 Jaroslav Škarvada  - 8.14.4-5
- fixed user/group creation

* Tue Mar 02 2010 Jaroslav Škarvada  - 8.14.4-4
- used noreplace for sasl config
- used ghost instead of explicit provides
- deffattr changed to (-,root,root,-)