I had the Exact Same problem, Unfortunately (or fortunately for me) it
seemed to fix itself when i started playing with djbdns, replacing bind.
But i have no idea if its related at all, or not.
Josiah Hobson wrote:
>I think I sent this in a few days ago, but I have seen no replies as yet.
>I seem to be seeing periodic corruption of my tcp.smtp.cdb file. I would
>really value some input from those more knowledgable than myself b/c I am
>totally stumped...
>
>It all started when I wanted to open up SMTP to other machines on my local
>network. I added this line to tcp.smtp and rebuilt the cdb:
>10.0.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
>
>Now the smtp socket seems to die or hang or something after 12-24 hours.
>netstat shows it as still listening, but a telnet to port 25 will connect
>but not initiate a session or respond to any commands. Applications
>attempting to send mail will of course timeout waiting for a response.
>
>Restarting qmail with `qmail restart` does NOT solve the problem, nor does
>restarting the OS. Simply rebuilding the cdb with `qmail cdb` DOES HOWEVER
>fix the problem immediately. So it does seem that the tcp.smtp.cbd file is
>being corrupted.
>
>I don't see anything anywhere in the logs to indicate that something bad
>is happenening. I am no qmail expert so I'm about at the end of my
>troubleshooting capability. Anybody who can shed some light on the inner
>workings of this cdb so I can figure out why it is being corrupted?
>
>I mean, I could always cron a `qmail cdb` script and probably avoid the
>issue, but I hate not get down to the root cause.
>
>My qmail setup is pretty plain vanilla - configured according to the
>advice in "living with qmail". It was running fine for several weeks
>before I made this change, although I was not really using SMTP then.
>
>Thanks!
>
>- josiah
>
>
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Adam Conolly
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System Administrator
Cintek Internet Services
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