Dear Fellows,
Hello!
Our server had been running qmail-1.02 for quite sometime. Recently, there
were few problems encountered. I have no idea whether sysad had any
hand in it or not.
Problem 1. The remote mails were delievered instantly but the local
mails were not at all delivered. as a result we could not get any
mails. The logs showed upto 1400 local message nos. and the status
line read
status: local 10/10 remote 0/20(or 5/20)
till the sysad forced qmail to deliever the local messages.
There were once so many mails and the logs were really mounting up so
mush so that /var became full. the sysad then removed the log files
manually.
Problem 2. After a reboot the problem really grew. qmail just couldnt
restart. the system logs was full of similar mesg.
alert: unable to open(/read) todo/<some no.s> or
alert: unable to open(/read) mess/<some.nos> or
alert: unable to opendir todo, sleeping...
All this time the logfile was increasing by Mb' severy minute and
within few minutes the /var was full again. and since then its not
been working at all.
A similar installation of qmail exists on another server which we are
using at present.
Any insight into the above problems would be helpful.
Thanks and regards,
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Sameer Vijay - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Research Engineer)
Dept. of Chemical Engg, IIT Bombay, Mumbai 400076 INDIA.
Fax: +91-22-5796895 (dept), +91-22-5783480 (IITB)
