At 09:02 28-08-2009, Micah Anderson wrote:
>Everything seems fine on my dkim signing service. However, every 
>hour, almost exactly at the same time, I get this error
>in my logs:
>
>Aug 26 14:02:45 mx2 postfix/cleanup[12057]: warning: connect to 
>Milter service unix:/var/run/dkim-filter/dkim-filter.sock: No such file or
>directory

The milter is not running.

>It goes away, only to come back at :02 after the hour again next hour.
>
>I have no cronjobs running on this machine at all, and nothing else
>happening at a regular hourly interval.

Do your logs show that the milter is started around that time?  Your 
description points to a process starting the milter or the 
autorestart feature of the milter kicking in.

>I don't want to ignore this error, because when dkim-milter *does*
>crash, I get quite a few of these messages, and that notifies me that
>the daemon needs to be restarted. However, seeing this message once an
>hour is a bit annoying.

dkim-milter should not crash.

>The dkim-milter process runs like this:
>
>108      11255  0.0  0.0  19892  1704 ?        Ssl  Aug21   0:10 
>/usr/sbin/dkim-filter -x /etc/dkim-filter.conf -u dkim-filter -P 
>/var/run/dkim-filter/dkim-filter.pid -p 
>local:/var/run/dkim-filter/dkim-filter.sock -l -i /etc/dkim-sign -c 
>relaxed/simple -S rsa-sha1 -d mydomain.net -D -s myselector

[snip]

>As you can see from the process list above, the dkim-filter process has
>been running for 7 days, so it is not being restarted every hour.

Verify whether the sock file exists.

BTW, how are the alert messages being generated?

Regards,
-sm 


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