Chris,
Look at /var/qmail/lock/trigger It should be a named pipe with the
following permissions: prw--w--w- and owned by user:qmails group:qmail
When this file gets changed, it can lead to the symptoms you describe.
-Jere
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Christopher Porreca wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have a problem with my qmail system. We've been running mail for almost a
> year now with no major incidents to report.. until now.
>
> Our mail queue started filling up yesterday and mail delivery seemed to have
> slowed down to a crawl.. (It took hours to deliver messages.) I see a very
> cyclical load average on the machine ranging from .45 to 2.3, up and down
> every 2-3 minutes or so. The mail queue itself (which is usually around
> 60-80 megabytes large) has grown to 300 megabytes in the past 24 hours. The
> machine itself does not seem to be struggling in any way, but the queue just
> will not flush out. There does not seem to be any (much) spam throughout
> the mail queue, and there is no steady stream of large messages from any one
> peticular source.
>
> I was hoping that the queue would flush out last night when it was about 250
> megabytes, but barely any messages got delivered and it's up to 300 megs
> this morning.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be happening on my mail server?
> Thank you everyone for your help!
>
> - Chris
>
> Christopher Porreca
> Systems Administrator
> N e t A c c e s s , I n c .
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