I have a postfix server running amavisd. It crashed a few weeks ago and had to be bare metal restored. All seemed well until today when mail stopped flowing.
I poked around and found this in my logs: Sep 10 20:47:30 tn1 amavis[7699]: (07699-01) (!!)TROUBLE in process_request: Can't create directory /home/amavis/tmp/amavis-20080910T204730-07699: Too many links at /usr/sbin/amavisd line 4787, <GEN9> line 4. Sep 10 20:47:30 tn1 amavis[7699]: (07699-01) (!)Requesting process rundown after fatal error I found that /home/amavis/tmp was full of directories causing the apparent problem. Not knowing what else to do, I stopped postfix and amavisd, renamed the tmp dir to tmpold, recreated a new tmp, changed it's permissions (amavis:amavis) and restarted. Mail started flowing, however I don't know what is in all those directories in the original tmp. Do they have messages in queue that I can recover and process somehow? Can someone advise what to do with them? Thanks, Scott ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ 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/
