Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote:
> wkb> Apr 22 09:29:50 freebie sendmail[253]: File descriptors missing on start
up: stdout, stderr; Bad file descriptor
>
> sendmail always checks it's first three fd's at startup to avoid the
> problem that has just come to light in the FreeBSD security announcement.
> This is what is logged if sendmail has problems with them. It can be
> ignored as sendmail attaches /dev/null to them.
In this particular case it's a false alarm. There are fd's there, but they
got revoke(2)'ed by the getty on the console. fstat(2) returns EBADF on the
revoked fd's and is impossible to tell the difference between a revoke'd fd
and a non-existing fd.
Cheers,
-Peter
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