Yes, restarting my syslogd did the trick. Thanks for the help.
-----Original Message-----
From: amichaud [mailto:amichaud]On Behalf Of Andre Michaud
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 3:43 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Qmail
Subject: Re: Slow Response from Port 25/QMail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 02:48:41PM -0300, Mark Walsh wrote:
> >
> > I guess on top of that, just noticed that I no longer have a LOG file.
I
> > had removed the MESSAGES file to clear up space, and no file was
recreated
> > by qmail. Was I suppose to recreate one?
>
> This is a question for syslogd rather than qmail. But yes, syslogd, in
it's
> wisdom will not create a log file if it doesn't exist. It can totally fill
up
> your partition once one does exist of course. All part of the byzantine
> security model of syslogd.
>
Oups, syslog recreate his log files. Just send
a SIGHUP to your syslogd process.
It is easy to rotate your logs with a script like that :
mv /var/adm/messages /sparespare/messages.<date>
kill -HUP <pid of syslogd>
compress(gzip) /sparespare/messages.<date>
> Regards.
>
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vova [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 2:41 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: re: Slow Response from Port 25/QMail
> >
> >
> > >> Most of the time, I try to send a message and it will time out. Even
> > attempting to Telenet to the port will not always pop right up so that I
> > can
> > type helo firewall. It may take 60 seconds or a 2nd,3rd attempt to send
> > mail. The problem seems only to be internal, but outside the office,
> > seems
> > to work well. My IP Masqurading seems to be ok since I have no trouble
> > getting on the internet. WHy is QMAIL so slow in responding?
> >
> > ----------------------------
> >
> > try to check reverse DNS, problem may be in it
> > A few days ago I had something like that
> >
> >
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André Michaud
Direction générale des télécomunications
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