It could be any of a several problems; too many connections to the database, the
server going into a tight process-loop ( I see those every couple of days on
some installations ), corruption in the preforking bookkeeping, or even some
unkown problem.
I use a simple keep-alive script triggered from cron :-(...
like thiz:
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#!/bin/sh
send_alert() {
hour=`date +%H`
mailto=$MAILTO_HI
if [ "$hour" -gt "20" -o "$hour" -lt "8" ]; then
mailto=$MAILTO_LO
fi
mail -s "[${WHEREAMI}:$1]" $MAILTO </dev/null
}
restart_dbmail() {
# send_alert "DeferredDbmailRestartAlert"
/etc/init.d/dbmail restart
}
check_dbmail() {
timeout -1 2 nc -w 5 localhost imap 2>/dev/null |\
head -1|grep -E '\* OK' || return 1
return 0
}
dolog() {
msg="$@"
echo "$0: $msg"
logger -t "$0" "$msg"
}
check_dbmail || restart_dbmail
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Simon wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Paul... Is there any suggestions for a short term
> sort of hack/fix to somehow sidestep the problem? If not... tell me to
> have a bit more patience :)
>
> Simon
>
> Paul J Stevens wrote:
>
>> Simon,
>>
>> the problem with the init script is unrelated to the unresponsive imapd
>> afaik. So a fix of the init script (cosmetic) will not fix the your
>> problem, alas.
>>
>>
>> Simon wrote:
>>
>>> Paul J Stevens wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I wrote that init script for the debian packages. It predates the
>>>> pid-file
>>>> solution, and needs cleaning up. I'm on it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cool as! This is happening to me once or twice a day with both pop3 and
>>> imap clients. Im wondering if it is worth restarting dbmail at night?
>>> Would this be a bit of a temp fix?
>>>
>>> Simon
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