Jon Rust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Suddenly qmail stopped responding today. Telnet to port 25 gave me
>the standard telnet "connected to" and "escape character is ^]" but
>no smtp prompt. ps aux showed many smtp processes.
This is precisely the behavior one observes when tcpserver's
connection limit is reached.
>Since the phone
>was ringing off the hook, I had to hurry and didn't have time to look
>farther. I stopped the qmail service, waited about 30 seconds, then
>restarted it. It's answering again, but I don't know for how long.
Probably until another 99 connections come in. :-) Sounds like you
might need to raise the limit.
>A feel rusty since it's been so long since anything has gone with my
>qmail installation. :-/ What should have I done to track down the
>culprit?
Look at the qmail-smtpd (really tcpserver) logs.
-Dave
