Mark Delany wrote:
>
> At 03:09 PM Friday 7/23/99, Gustavo Rios wrote:
> >I am sorry that this topic is lasting so long, but my qmail dies and dies.
> >I AM GETTING CRAZY!
> >
> >My qmail server dies all the time, the messages is:
> >lost spwan connection:..... exited .......
>
> Right. Well you need to collect a few more facts then (and I may have
> missed some earlier).
>
> Such as:
>
> 1. Is there any pattern to this occuring? Time that qmail is up, number of
> mails delivered? Time the OS has been up?
No pattern
Qmail does not get up more than 24 hours.
It already crashed more than 6 times a day.
my uptime:
4:00PM up 6 days, 21:18, 2 users, load averages: 0.19, 0.09, 0.03
> 2. Does it change if you alter concurrency settings?
I never changed concurrency settings.
Is it necessary ?
> 3. Are you starting qmail from your bootup scripts (rc, etc) or are you
> starting it from a root shell?
i start it from a root shell, here goes what i do to start it:
# export PATH=/var/qmail/bin:$PATH <enter>
# qmail-start ./.Mailbox sh -c 'accustamp | cyclog /var/log/qmail' &
> 4. Are lots of other things running on that system?
No, the system is by far idled.
> 5. If so, does qmail stay up longer if they are not started?
>
> 6. When you quote messages, especially from logs, can you cut and paste
> rather than paraphrase?
> 7. Can you show the list the log entries which preceed the "lost spawn"
> message? Any correlation there? Eg, is it always the start of a remote
> delivery that causes the lost spawn? Have you hit some common concurrency
> number?
vitoria:/var/log/qmail# tail -f @00000932675556
932677316.686885 end msg 276627
932677316.687905 new msg 276628
932677316.687915 info msg 276628: bytes 1432 from <> qp 39693 uid 408
932677316.708270 starting delivery 17: msg 276628 to remote
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
932677316.708629 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20
932677317.048603 delivery 17: success:
200.19.130.117_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_SAA11788_Message_accepted_for_delivery/
932677317.049745 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
932677317.049759 end msg 276628
932677410.051808 alert: oh no! lost spawn connection! dying...
932677410.054789 status: exiting
> 8. Are there any correlating entries in other syslog files?
>
> Regards.
