SUMMARY: sendmail net hang

From: Robert D. Worsham (worsham@aer.com)
Date: Fri Aug 13 1993 - 21:30:39 CDT


  Sun-managers comes through again,

  The original posting:

| sun-managers,
|
| System config: mail server - Sun 3/280 4.1.1_U1
| exports /var/spool/mail
|
| mail clients - SS2 4.1.2
| mounts /var/spool/mail from mail server
|
| Problem:
|
| The following error messages occasionally show up on the console of
| more than one SS2 mail client:
|
| Aug 11 14:45:43 mud sendmail[25486]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading from sol: Connection timed out
| Aug 11 14:45:55 mud sendmail[25491]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading from sol: Connection timed out
| Aug 11 15:00:43 mud sendmail[25486]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading from sol: Connection timed out
| Aug 11 15:00:55 mud sendmail[25491]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading from sol: Connection timed out
| Aug 11 15:10:46 mud sendmail[25748]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading from sol: Connection timed out
| Aug 11 15:10:54 mud sendmail[25753]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading from sol: Connection timed out
| Aug 11 15:14:41 mud sendmail[25763]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading from sol: Connection timed out
| Aug 11 15:25:46 mud sendmail[25748]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading from sol: Connection timed out
| Aug 11 15:25:54 mud sendmail[25753]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading from sol: Connection timed out
|
| Has anyone seen this before? Does it indicate a problem?
| Any pointers are greatly appreciated.
|
| Thanks in advance, I will post a summary.
  

   The overwhelming consensus (and the correct answer! :-) was that
   the problem is due to the LACK of a 'newline' at the end of the
   mail file. For our particular case, this was due to the mailed
   file being created in emacs (our vi guru is eating this up!),
   which is prone to this behavior. A couple of people suggested
   that the missing 'newline' could also be in the .signature file
   (which is true, but not in this case).

   Four of the respondents said that they were also seeing the same
   messages, so I'm getting this summary out in short order.

   Thanks to all respondents,

      lister@athens (Andrew Lister - SUN Tech Support)
      rudi@chem.rug.nl (Rudi van Drunen)
      Neil Rumney <neil@department-computer-studies.napier.ac.uk>
      Birger.Wathne@vest.sdata.no (Birger A. Wathne)
      blymn@mulga.awadi.com.AU (Brett Lymn)
      crosbie@math.clemson.edu (Scott Crosbie)
      pallas@oclc.org (George Pallas)
      poole@cs.widener.edu (Phil Poole)
      adaptec!met@uunet.UU.NET (Met Cirit X2242)
      "David T. Hightower" <hightowr@utah.afwc.af.mil>
      swanes@etswwmd.nyeq.gs.com (Steve Swaney)
      stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - NE Area Systems Engineer)
      Ilkka Virtanen <ilkka@ee.oulu.fi>
      Larry Nelson <nelson@zorro.cecer.army.mil>

   -- Bob

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