"Ing. Andr?s E. Gallo":
> Hi there,
> I am running a fresh install of FreeBSD 8.0, with Postfix 2.8-20100306,
> amavisd-new, SA like MTA, besides Squid and Bind DNS.
>
> It was running as secondary MX, and not sending mails -besides bounces-
> for a week or so since install without problems.
>
> Yesterday, I set it up like gateway for the Outgoing mails.
>
> But a couple of hours later, I got the alert of SMTP down. Other
> services were OK ( Squid & DNS ) but Postfix was 'dead'. The reload
> command said OK, but no way. postfix stop didn't worked.
>
> The log showed:
> ---------------------
> 197382-Mar 15 19:03:49 fobos amavis[10328]: (10328-01-204) (!!)file(1)
> utility (/usr/local/bin/file) FAILED: timed out
Amavis reports that the /usr/local/bin/file command is hanging.
Note that the file command is not part of Postfix (or Amavis).
> 197383-Mar 15 19:04:24 fobos amavis[10328]: (10328-01-204) (!)rw_loop:
> leaving rw loop, no progress, last event (select) 35.002 s ago
Amavis reports that other stuff is hanging too.
[other amavis warnings omitted...]
> 197386-Mar 15 19:05:57 fobos postfix/qmgr[24106]: 8A0C6114560:
> from=<anchima...@gesell.com.ar>, size=414703, nrcpt=5 (queue active)
[non-qmgr logging omitted...]
> 197392:Mar 15 19:22:36 fobos postfix/qmgr[24106]: fatal: watchdog timeout
19:22:36 - 19:05:57 = 999 seconds, the queue manager watchdog timeout.
> Any idea what's going on?
Postfix runs fine on FreeBSD 8 (here, since November 2009).
I suspect there is a problem with your system. Once your operating
system is working properly, you can ask any Postfix related question
here.
Wietse
