I looked on the mailing list archives for the past problems that have this error and I was wondering if anybody had more details on how to fix this problem without restarting the actual machine.
I have 2 servers running RH ES3, running Mimedefang 2.57 and sendmail-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.4. Under normal circumstances, they share the load pretty well. Today I noticed that my mail01 server was loaded (35+) while my mail02 server had no load at all. I checked the logs for mail02 and I saw the following: Milter (mimedefang): local socket name /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock unsafe Permissions are fine, as MD starts up normally after a reboot/restart (unless I see this error). If I do a "service sendmail restart", the mimedefang.sock file never gets created, and so the MD service fails as well. Doing a restart on the server fixes the problem and mail processes normally once again. What information would be needed to try and determine how to go about fixing this problem without a restart? Thanks. Jeff W. _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
