On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:47 PM, kashani <kashani-l...@badapple.net> wrote:
> On 11/15/2010 8:37 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> Color me stupid. It was stopped. It started when I told it to in >> /etc/init.d. >> Now I have to wonder what stopped it. Judging from the mail that got >> through all of a sudden, I guess it stopped >> about 2 weeks ago. I'll have to watch this... >> > > IIRC updates of the Postfix package that could in result in data > loss of queued mail will shutdown Postfix before preceding. Looks like > Postfix 2.7.1 hit on Nov 4 and 2.6.7 has been in the system since June. I'd > bet you ran the update, Postfix shutdown for safety, and you missed the > screen output about restarting it. > > kashani > > That's probably right. Emerges that take days have trained me to not to watch them happen. I read the latest elog of all packages once a month, some send me mail; but if Postfix shut down before delivery, I would not get it at all. I use elogviewer once a month, so I'll probably see it in a couple of weeks. It's nice to know what happened. Not much mail actually goes through this system, so while this has been something of a puzzle, no major harm was done. It's nice to have the explanation. Thanks. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
