Christian, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We have been running Postfix Spamassassin Amavisd on RedHat 9 as a > front-end mail filter/server for many years. > Since last friday, mail is stacking up in the Postfix queue with the > message: > delivery temporarily suspended: lost connection with > 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] while sending RCP TO > > An amavisd.log revealed these errors: > Jan 28 13:14:04 sspam1.uqat.ca /usr/local/sbin/amavisd[5208]: (05208-01) > (!!)TROUBLE in process_request: Can't create directory > /var/amavis/tmp/amavis-20080128T131404-05208: Too many links at > /usr/local/sbin/amavisd line 4780.Too many links at (eval 36) line 95, > <GEN5> line 2. >
The "Too many links" (EMLINK) occurs during an attempt to create an new hard link (file, directory) in a file system whose maximum link count has been reached. Simply put, there are too many files and/or directories in the file system that contains /var/amavis/tmp. Amavis will leave tmp directories when there has been some failure during decoding or scanning, so that you may examine the evidence manually. Normally, amavis will remove these temporary directories, so you should examine why they remain. Check your logs for errors, using the temporary file name as a key to help you trace back. One possibility is that you are not doing recipient validation and a wave of malware is hitting your server, malware that happens to cause some decoder/unpacker to fail. Be sure you are doing proper recipient validation. In any case, you can always remove older temporary directories, for example, using a cron job to remove anything older than say a couple of days. MrC > In a post I found that emptying the /tmp directory would fix the problem > but I don't want to loose any e-mail... > > I'm kind of lost since I've been searching all week-end and found > nothing that could help me. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Christian Pepin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
