At 06:24 PM 3/7/99 +0530, Sameer Vijay wrote:
>
>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.
Why not show is some log messages associated with the local delivery
attempts. We cannot guess what those entries are.
>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...
Please don't sanitize log entries if you want a response. As has been said
many times on this list - sanitized log messsages often hide the true nature
of the problem.
If confidentiality is an issue such that you cannot disclose the log files
to the list, you may want to contract one of the commercial support people
listed on www.qmail.org
Regards.
