Ok, so I have definitely confirmed that:
1) Both the db and www chroot periodically break
2) When broken, the www chroot can't send email from PHP
3) Each can be fixed by chrooting in with "ls /etc/group /etc/passwd"
4) Fixing one doesn't fix the other
5) Once the www chroot is fixed, PHP can send email just fine
6) I needn't restart lighttpd/php to fix it
The filesystem is ext3.
One theory was nscd, but I don't think I have that running. At the very
least, I don't see a nscd process:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] svn]# ps aux | grep nscd
root 12260 0.0 0.1 3916 684 pts/0 S+ 00:01 0:00 grep nscd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] svn]#
I'm thinking the real solution is to ditch this old FC4 host system
(which was installed by the dedicated server provider, and thus I don't
know what weird changes they made) and switch to Debian.
-david
Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 05:38:50PM -0700, David Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
Wow, great observation: doing a "ls" of /etc/group and /etc/passwd fixes
it. How incredibly strange:
I'd go for "jawdroppingly bizarre" myself.
The only other thing I can think of is that maybe there's something
odd at the filesystem level. Is it anything but a straight ext3
filesystem? (e.g., are you using NFS, unionfs, fuse filesystems, etc)
Daniel
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