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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: sendmail problem
Message-ID: <2093@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Dec-84 20:55:07 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 23 20:55:07 1984
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Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
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The ``Cannot open /dev/console: Bad file number'' error is usually caused
by accidently deleting the ``localhost'' entry in /etc/hosts.  Sendmail
logs errors to syslog, but it gets to syslog by opening a connection on
``localhost'', and if it can't do that, it complains about the console.

Makes great sense, doesn't it?

I hate sendmail.
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