Re: Pop before SMTP and "makemap" problems

[Alan Brown]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, A. M. Salim wrote:

> Yes, we are indeed running dns on the same box (bind 8) and the symptoms
> are almost identical to what you describe.  Though I had not observed the
> correlation between upstream connection being bad (if our upstream
> connection is bad, it is not bad for hours but typically minutes, whereas
> the relaying problem lasts for hours on end once it happens).  Nor have I
> observed 0 length databases (/etc/mail/popauth.db and /etc/mail/access.db
> for example).

Typically a hung makemap happens because something else is already
writing to the file concerned, or something is reading and has opened it
with a write lock.

AB