Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
On Jan 7, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Michael D. Baldwin wrote:
Just last night I was sending emails fine, this afternoon I try to
send an
email from my lan and nothing. It just simply WILL NOT SEND. Absolutely
nothing on my mailserver has changed. It's the same way right now as
it was
last night when mail worked fine. I turned the loglevel upto 7 and
watched
the output.
Do you see new output written to the log?
If not, then the log writer probably got stuck and qpsmtpd is
blocking trying to add to the log.
- ask
Look for a zero length ./log/main/current file as one symptom.
ps uw -A
kill -9 [pid of qpsmtpd's multilog]
Then you would see the "current" log file begin to grow
in size, and qpsmtpd would start working, if multilog was
the problem.
"man multilog" tells us multilog will pause if it has a problem
rotating the logs.
You can kill -9 [pid of multilog] as many times as you like
without hurting anything. Once would tell you if that
was the block.
I'm still having this problem myself because of some little
path problem in my multilog !processor_script. I make a
little change, wait a day for current file to roll over into
a @*.s file, "ps uw -A", read "readproctitle" error message.
I'm not complaining. I think multilog is a great tool.
-Bob
