On Tue, 22 May 2018 18:13:23 -0700 "Paul B. Henson" <hen...@acm.org> wrote:
> If the ldap server isn't available when opensmtpd is started, it says > it started: > > # /etc/rc.d/smtpd start Then apparently you should have done # /etc/rc.d/ldapd start or preferably # rcctl start ldapd first. Are you enabling them both at boot time? # rcctl enable ldapd # rcctl enable smtpd Are they being started in the wrong order at boot time? Otherwise, there may well be arguably a certain reliability or error reporting issue in the code for it, but there is a certain bottom line here in that if you configure ASDF to _require_ JKL for authentication, then you really do need to have JKL "available" if you expect ASDF to work the way you configured it. What you ask is a very general question: If A depends on B, and B is missing, how do expect A to behave? Anyways, smtpd is a daemon. It was forked off, and it was still running when it was checked immediately after you issued the command "/etc/rc.d/smtpd start". Its parent process had no doubt already terminated and control had reverted to the shell before the fatal error occurred. You would have to issue the command # rcctl check smtpd to check that smtpd is still running at some later time.
