Steve Heaven:
> On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 06:41 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > Steve Heaven:
> > >
> > > We have noticed several entries like:
> > >
> > > postfix/postdrop[5917]: warning: uid=0: Illegal seek
> > >
> > > in our logs. Is this anything we should be worried about?
> >
> > The crystal ball isn't working. What file system is this? What
> > Postfix version is this? What were you doing (submitting mail with
> > postfix "sendmail -bs", ...).
>
> Sorry!
>
> postfix v2.3.3
> Linux 2.6.18.8
> filesystem Linux ext3
>
> We weren't doing anything specific at the time, we just found several
> instances of the above in the logs files.
This is fixed with Postfix 2.3 patch 09, released April 2007.
Wietse
20070306
Bugfix (introduced with Postfix 2.3 Milter support): postdrop
reported "illegal seek" instead of "file too large". File:
postdrop/postdrop.c. Back-ported from Postfix 2.4.