On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Racer X wrote:
What I think is happening: qmail-local attempts to change to the root path,
and the chdir for THAT fails because the NFS mount is down. Around line 90
in qmail-local.c:
if (chdir(dir) == -1) { if (error_temp(errno)) _exit(1); _exit(2); }
Now according to the documentation, temporary failures are supposed to have
an exit code of 111, but for the moment I'll assume the "error_temp" stuff
is working as it's supposed to. The problem then becomes, why is
qmail-local apparently interpreting the error (NFS read timeout?) as
permanent and not temporary?
No, that's the code in maildir_child, which is exiting a subprocess
of the delivering qmail-local. It would probably be helpful to set
up a test bed to replicate the problem and do a system call trace of
qmail-lspawn and children to see what's actually going on.
If it really is bouncing immediately on NFS failure it shouldn't be.
It doesn't here.
-- Jeff Hayward
