in the sendmail.cf config file there is an option which specifies when reach some load to stop handling e-mails.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Dekkers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:41 AM Subject: Clarification needed - sendmail rejection > Hey, I woke up this morning to find no-one could send e-mail anymore. The > log was full of these: > > rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average 12 > > I've checked on google and it seems I shouldn't worry too much, as this > apparently just means the system is overloaded. Most people who have had > this have re-booted and all was well. > > On the experience of others I tried this and shutdown hung on SMB shutting > down. > > Funnily enough somebody else's post I read on google also had the fact that > SMB had hung and caused the same system overload, with sendmail on their > system giving the same error message. > > After I hard-reset the PC (Gasp!!! never had to do that!!!), and the usual > journal recovery and checks, all was indeed well. > > Anybody have any idea what might cause SMB to hang like that? Somebody on > google described a 'bad mount'. What in your opinion is a Samba bad mount? > > Just trying to stop this from happening again. I had a brilliant uptime > figure and I'm spewing I had to re-set the thing (service sendmail restart > did not work). > > --- > Edward Dekkers (Director) > Triple D Computer Services P/L > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
