Error messages - what do they mean?
Hi! I'm getting stuff like this in my logs: Nov 28 22:16:09 sol qmail: 975446169.345287 warning: trouble marking remote/9/96701; message will be delivered twice! Nov 28 22:16:09 sol qmail: 975446169.347416 delivery 8796: deferral: qmail-spawn_unable_to_create_pipe._(#4.3.0)/ This seems to mean trouble. What else does it mean? -Johan -- Johan Almqvist
Re: Error messages - what do they mean?
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:22:02PM +0100, Johan Almqvist wrote: > Hi! > > I'm getting stuff like this in my logs: > > Nov 28 22:16:09 sol qmail: 975446169.345287 warning: trouble marking > remote/9/96701; message will be delivered twice! > Nov 28 22:16:09 sol qmail: 975446169.347416 delivery 8796: deferral: > qmail-spawn_unable_to_create_pipe._(#4.3.0)/ > > This seems to mean trouble. What else does it mean? Apart from trouble? Nothing. Seriously, you have some serious resource and permission problems. Tell us more about the installation. Is it new? How did you do it? Which instructions did you follow? Has this mail system ever been running? What has changed recently? Any change of permissions, moving of directories, backup/restores? How do you start qmail? I suspect that the permission settings in /var/qmail differ from the ones set by a standard qmail install. I also suspect that the limits inherited by qmail-start need to be increased. Regards.
Re: Error messages - what do they mean?
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:50:58PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It may have to do with too little memory (I use qmail-scanner, and a lot > > of other stuff runs on this machine with 32 megs of RAM). It may be the > > case that this only happens when I put extra load on the machine, I'll > > look into that. > I'd be surprised. Just because a server is overloaded doesn't mean > that permissions start acting differently. But certainly the "cannot > create pipe" *may* be that too many processes are consuming all system > limited resources. That can be changed, but it is OS dependent. > > > > I suspect that the permission settings in /var/qmail differ from the ones set > > > by a standard qmail install. I also suspect that the limits inherited by > > > qmail-start need to be increased. > > Okay, I will check the perms (done. they were okay, it seems...) and > How did you check? i "ls -l'd" around a bit. I also ran queue-fix (with patch for big-todo because of RPMs) from the qmail homepage. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist
