Mike Cappella made it to easy to refuse to install despite it postfix-logwatch not being in the 7.10 repositories. 1.37.08 is installed and I like the reports even more than I did the others. I think I found out what I needed so consider this closed. Duane and Noel, thanks for the replys.
Guy On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Guy Story KC5GOI <kc5...@gmail.com> wrote: > Noel, just before I saw your post I realized I had confused the two. My > mistake or is it I can see into the future? :) I have the current Logwatch, > not the postfix-logwatch module. An apt-get -install -s postfix-logwatch > on that system can not find the package. > I have not found the actual comment in the mail.log file and what I found > on http://www.mikecappella.com/logwatch/faq.html#connectionoverload, > logwatch generated that text, not Postfix so I am in the wrong place with my > question. If the site is correct, this is not to much of an issue after > all. It seems to be more of a vague indication message. There have been > suggestions about changing the smptd_timeout to a larger value. I have not > found smtpd_timeout in my master.cf file. It looks like the message from > logwatch is telling me that there were a large number of unresolved > connections, ie no ip address given before the disconnect occurred. > Side note on this. I installed logwatch on Ubuntu 7.10 and given the info > on the site, the postfix-logwatch module I am using is dated. The message > verbiage was changed to include the phrase "Possible connection overload". > Given that knowledge, I can live with this error. > > Guy > > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Noel Jones <njo...@megan.vbhcs.org>wrote: > >> Guy Story KC5GOI wrote: >> >>> >>> Maybe your postfix-logwatch module needs updating. >>> >>> >>> 7.3.6 is the version I installed via apt two weeks ago. It is the first >>> time I saw this so it has me a bit curious. >>> >> >> Cool, considering the current postfix-logwatch version is 1.37.08. >> >> http://www.mikecappella.com/logwatch/ >> >> Maybe your postfix-logwatch module needs updating. >> >> 73, >> >> -- >> Noel Jones >> > > > > -- > 73 > > Guy Story KC5GOI > kc5...@gmail.com > -- 73 Guy Story KC5GOI kc5...@gmail.com
