Wietse Venema
Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:27:46 -0800
Wietse Venema: > >Jan 1 20:19:41 mail-ausfall postfix/verify[26329]: fatal: close database > >/var/lib/postfix/verify.db: No such file or directory
Testing the same bogus error with postscreen:
> Does not reproduce on Ubuntu 9.10-server with the default Berkeley DB 4.7.
Also not on Fedora Core 11 with the default Berkeley DB 4.7.25.
Wietse
> Can you check if this warning (and the warning for postscreen) goes
> away when automatic cache cleanup is turned off?
>
> address_verify_cache_cleanup_interval = 0
> postscreen_cache_cleanup_interval = 0
>
> This can't be the same bug as discussed last month with "close
> database after fork", because verify(8) does not fork. Also, Postfix
> does not close the same database twice (I wipe the database handle
> after close to prevent that from happening).
>
> The warning is harmless because Postfix flushes database buffers
> with each postscreen/verify database update. With synchronous
> database updates it would make no sense if the database failed to
> report update errors immediately and delayed those error reports
> until the database is closed.
>
> Wietse
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