Steve Heaven: > On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 06:41 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > > Steve Heaven: > > > > > > We have noticed several entries like: > > > > > > postfix/postdrop[5917]: warning: uid=0: Illegal seek > > > > > > in our logs. Is this anything we should be worried about? > > > > The crystal ball isn't working. What file system is this? What > > Postfix version is this? What were you doing (submitting mail with > > postfix "sendmail -bs", ...). > > Sorry! > > postfix v2.3.3 > Linux 2.6.18.8 > filesystem Linux ext3 > > We weren't doing anything specific at the time, we just found several > instances of the above in the logs files.
This is fixed with Postfix 2.3 patch 09, released April 2007. Wietse 20070306 Bugfix (introduced with Postfix 2.3 Milter support): postdrop reported "illegal seek" instead of "file too large". File: postdrop/postdrop.c. Back-ported from Postfix 2.4.