Althouhg you didn't say, I assume this is happening all the time?
I see this error when a qmail-lspawn'ed qmail-local fails
catastrophically (e.g. protection exception, core dump). Are there any
core files under /var/qmail (or whatever your auto_qmail is set to)?
You may want to set up ddd and walk through qmail-local's execution (put
a sleep loop near the beginning of the main() function so you can attach
- it is much easier than trying to walk through the spawn/vfork logic in
qmail-lspawn.c+spawn.c).
Obviously check that your cdb file, /etc/passwd, and end-user directory
are correct. I also assume that all patches have been applied.
Robert wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I'm the sysadmin for a small ISP with a little less than 3,000 users.
> We are currently using an NT based email system called vopmail. I'm
> working on switching to qmail running on BSDI 4.0.1 Everything appears
> to be working alright except for getting the following error in my
> /var/log/messages file:
>
> Sep 6 10:48:01 qmail: 936592618.270006: alert: oh no! lost spawn
> connection! dying...
>
> When I intially installed qmail, I installed daemontools-0.53. Should I
> be running a newer version than this?? If so, could that be why I'm
> having this problem??
>
> The server in question is a dual pentium III 500 with 512MB of ram
> running on a DPT smartraid IV controller. The kernel has been fully
> patched, and I am running qmail with the unlimit command.
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance you can give.
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Daemeon Reiydelle
Systems Engineer, Anthropomorphics Inc.
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