Hullo again...
Dave Sill wrote:
>
> Stephen Bosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> my /var/log/maillog fills up with stuff like this:
> >>
> >> Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.411296 end msg 1005715
> >> Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.507199 new msg 1005716
> >> Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.507323 info msg 1005716: bytes
> >> 266 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 27390 uid 502
> >> Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.573170 end msg 1005716
> >> Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.660653 new msg 1005715
> >> Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.660776 info msg 1005715: bytes
> >> 266 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 27403 uid 502
> >> Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.732709 end msg 1005715
> >>
> >> and so on, and so on, and so on. It goes back months like this (I would
> >> never have noticed it had it not been for some other issues I was
> >> working on). Is this normal? My other qmail installations don't do that.
>
> It's normal for qmail-send to log its actions. It's not normal to see
> messages "end" without a delivery being logged, or for no "status:"
> messages to be logged.
So, is Charles right? Does this indicate somebody is reattempting
delivery?
> It's not normal to have a qmail-send/log
> service when you're logging via splogger/syslog.
>
> >> [root@hotcube qmail]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail stat
> >> qmail-send: up (pid 27564)
> >> qmail-smtpd: up (pid 27566)
> >> qmail-send/log: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist
> >> qmail-smtpd/log: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist
>
> That means supervise isn't running for the log services.
>
> >> Okay. So I checked for sticky bits on the appropriate directories:
> >>
> >> [root@hotcube supervise]# ls -ld /var/qmail/supervise/*
> >> 927870 drwxr-xr-t 4 root qmail 1024 Sep 1 2000
> >> /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/
> >> 712830 drwxr-xr-t 4 root qmail 1024 Dec 18 10:27
> >> /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/
>
> Were they set when the services were started?
Yes. I've started and stopped them numerous times to no avail. At least,
I have started and stopped them using the /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail script
you provided (at the time) in LWQ.
It all seems to work, except for this peculiar problem above.
> >> qmail-smtpd/log:
> >> 733311 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 94 Sep 1 2000 run*
>
> No "supervise" directory... Further evidence that supervise isn't
> running.
*rattles head*
So... okay... where is supervise invoked again? I need to eat
something...
Your suggestion to migrate to the new LWQ setup is looking more
appealing by the minute.
-Stephen-
