On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 17:54, Andrew Newton wrote: > > courierd just kept doing this in the log: > > Jan 6 23:38:00 zark courierd: ABNORMAL TERMINATION BY A SIGNAL > Jan 6 23:38:00 zark courierd: Will restart in 60 seconds. > and mailq kept seg faulting. > > Of course I deleted the control and data file, but the user was playing > around with procmail (Yeah, I know!!!) and managed to cause it to bomb > out (attempting to write to /var/spool/mail I think).
If mailq was segfaulting, then I don't think you can attribute this problem to your user's procmail. There was probably something in the control file that couldn't be parsed properly. If that ever happens again, rather than deleting the files, move them somewhere they can be examined later.
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