Bruno wrote:

> Hello,

> My mail server goes down some times and I don't know why. Here are two
> logs, first the logwatch log:

>  --------------------- amavis Begin ------------------------

> 23 messages checked and passed.


> **Unmatched Entries**
>   starting.  amavisd-new at domain.com amavisd-new-20030616-p10,
> Unicode aware, LANG=en_US: 2 Time(s)
>   NOTICE: Disconnected from SQL server: 2 Time(s)
>   lookup_sql: 2006, MySQL server has gone away: 2 Time(s)
>   TROUBLE in check_mail: creating_partsdir FAILED: DBD::mysql::st
> execute failed: MySQL server has gone away at (eval 38) line 238,
> <GEN17> line 5073.: 1 Time(s)
>   TROUBLE in check_mail: creating_partsdir FAILED: DBD::mysql::st
> execute failed: MySQL server has gone away at (eval 38) line 238,
> <GEN35> line 148.: 1 Time(s)
>   PRESERVING EVIDENCE in /var/lib/amavis/amavis-20060830T163617-27901: 1 
> Time(s)
>   PRESERVING EVIDENCE in /var/lib/amavis/amavis-20060829T171649-27899: 1 
> Time(s)

>  ---------------------- amavis End -------------------------


> And this is the mail.log error:


> ---------------------------------------------------

> Aug 14 14:52:14 domain amavis[26931]: (26931-06) lookup_sql: 2013,
> Lost connection to MySQL server during query
> Aug 14 14:52:14 domain amavis[26931]: (26931-06) NOTICE: Disconnected
> from SQL server
> Aug 14 14:52:14 domain amavis[26931]: (26931-06) TROUBLE in
> check_mail: creating_partsdir FAILED: DBD::mysql::st execute failed:
> Lost connection to MySQL server during query at (eval 38) line 238,
> <GEN17> line 1968.
> Aug 14 14:52:14 domain amavis[26931]: (26931-06) PRESERVING EVIDENCE
> in /var/lib/amavis/amavis-20060813T183534-26931

> ---------------------------------------------------

> This errors appear "randomly" at different times, but there are some
> patterns. Some times, it happened some seconds after rdiff backup
> begins. But then other times it has nothing to do with rdiff.
> Also, amavis was stoping and not going back up alone, and making al
> mail stay in the queue.
> If I start again amavis and made a reload of postfix it will proces
> queue and work normaly.

> I've commented out this line in my.conf
> # skip-external-locking

> As I read in this forum:
> http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3705&page=2

> I've configured my postfix-courier-spamassassin-amavisd with this tutorial:
> http://www.howtoforge.net/virtual_postfix_mysql_quota_courier

> I'm still having the problem, and every time it goes down I lost my
> mails. some of them stay in the queue and after reloading postfix they
> are processed, but others just never get through.

> I'd really appreciate any advice.

> thanks.

I would try increasing the default wait_timeout. Looks like you
process very few messages, so the connection may time out. I believe
newer versions of amavisd-new work around this problem.

In my.cnf

wait_timeout 60000

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/gone-away.html

Gary V


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