> Christian, > > Christian.Pepin wrote: > > We have been running Postfix Spamassassin Amavisd on RedHat 9 as a > > front-end mail filter/server for many years. > > Since last friday, mail is stacking up in the Postfix queue with the > > message: > > delivery temporarily suspended: lost connection with > > 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] while sending RCP TO > > > > An amavisd.log revealed these errors: > > Jan 28 13:14:04 sspam1.uqat.ca /usr/local/sbin/amavisd[5208]: (05208-01) > > (!!)TROUBLE in process_request: Can't create directory > > /var/amavis/tmp/amavis-20080128T131404-05208: Too many links at > > /usr/local/sbin/amavisd line 4780.Too many links at (eval 36) line 95, > > <GEN5> line 2. > > >
> The "Too many links" (EMLINK) occurs during an attempt to create an new > hard link (file, directory) in a file system whose maximum link count > has been reached. Simply put, there are too many files and/or > directories in the file system that contains /var/amavis/tmp. > > Amavis will leave tmp directories when there has been some failure > during decoding or scanning, so that you may examine the evidence > manually. Normally, amavis will remove these temporary directories, so > you should examine why they remain. Check your logs for errors, using > the temporary file name as a key to help you trace back. > > One possibility is that you are not doing recipient validation and a > wave of malware is hitting your server, malware that happens to cause > some decoder/unpacker to fail. Be sure you are doing proper recipient > validation. > > In any case, you can always remove older temporary directories, for > example, using a cron job to remove anything older than say a couple of > days. > > MrC > This should provide additional details: http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/#faq-gen Indeed, thousands of left over temp directories is an indication something is amiss. -- Gary V ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
