On Wednesday 17 September 2003 10:46 am, Chris Shenton wrote: > Chris Shenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The machine was recently rebooted and vpopmail's POP now crashes upon > > successful authentication (names changed for privacy, sorry): > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]<104> telnet foo.example.net pop3 > > +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > user [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > +OK > > pass MyPass > > -ERR aack, child crashed > > I rebuilt the OS, rebuilt the kernel, rebuilt vpopmail (same version) > -- to no affect. I was able to get it working again with a relatively > minor fix. I'm documenting it here in case it helps anyone else. > > In /usr/local/vpopmail/etc/ there are files: open-smtp, > open-smtp.lock, and tcp.smtp. I removed the lock file and renamed the > other two to get them out of the way: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root vchkpw 1874 Sep 17 08:11 open-smtp > -rw-r--r-- 1 root vchkpw 302746 Sep 13 10:00 open-smtp.HIDE > -rw-r--r-- 1 root vchkpw 0 Sep 17 07:55 open-smtp.lock > -rw-r--r-- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 4015 Sep 17 08:11 tcp.smtp.cdb > -rw-r--r-- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 2112 Sep 17 07:59 tcp.smtp.cdb.HIDE > > I was then able to POP in sucessfully. > > Is there some way I should have been able to detect this problem? > Perhaps cranking up a debug flag and examining logs? > > I don't know the code enough to know which binaries use these, but it > looks like they all use open-smtp. Any clues for future similar > problems would be appreciated. If crash-related damage caused this, > is it something that's worked-around in modern versions of vpopmail? > > Thanks.
This might be tcprules dieing. with relay enabled in vpopmail it calls tcprules to rebuild the tcp.smtp.cdb file. Ken Jones
