[Sent to me directly, so I am posting my response...] On Monday 21 February 2005 11:20 pm, Angus Lee wrote: > Actually, when the first time i found this "dead" file in two > servers, i reboot them. > > 1st server (120GB IDE harddisk) : the bootup filesystem check found > error in "/home" ( my maildir partition ) and goes into maintenance > mode. I run fsck and it fixed the error. Then i reboot again and it > pass the bootup filesystem check. However, those file generate again > meanwhile.
What generated them? > 2nd server (146x3 SCSI RAID 5): the bootup filesystem check found > error in "/home" (my maildir parition ) and goes into maintenance > mode. However, fsck can't fix the problem as it said the Inode table > corrupted. No matter how i fsck and use different super block, it > still fail. Finally, i re-formatted that partition and rebuild my > maildir again. However, those file generate again meanwhile as well! Again, what created those files? > I'm running about ten server with Fedora 2, with SCSI RAID5, SCSI > SATA, single SATA and single IDE harddisk. For those non-email server > (without qmail, courier-imap), no problem in filesystem at all. But > only these two mail server. Ah, qmail is delivering them, no? The qmail list is down the hall, second door on your left. :-) Seriously though, something is very wrong with those servers, file systems, binaries, or some combination thereof... jerry ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
