Andy Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thus said Dave Sill on Tue, 02 Nov 1999 10:23:11 EST:
>
>> qmail-queue puts messages in queue/pid before moving them to
>> queue/mess. If messages are staying in queue/pid, they're not being
>> queued successfully. You should be seeing error messages when
>> qmail-queue is run, e.g., from qmail-inject. Try running Russ Nelson's
>> qmail-lint and "make check" from the qmail build directory.
>
>Hmm, well if it puts messages in there then it looks as if I have lost a
>lot of messages. Each file is 0 bytes in length and there are about 10000
>of them. Probably no way I can recover these... There were messages in
>/var/log/mail about qmail-queue not being able to write them. I wonder if
>it was unable to write them to queue/pid as well. At any rate, the problem
>was that the "trigger" pipe was not there. After I recreated that with
>mkfifo all seemed to return to normal. So, what is the purpose of the
>named pipe?
I don't think that a missing trigger would cause your problems.
qmail-queue uses trigger to tell qmail-send that there's a new message
in the queue. If trigger is fubared, qmail-send doesn't see new
messages until it makes it's regular 20-minute rounds.
Did you run qmail-lint, "make check", both, or neither?
-Dave
