On 09/22/2010 01:22 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth: >> On 09/21/2010 10:57 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: >>> Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth: >>>> Since yesterday I am experiencing big problems when delivering mail to >>>> an alias-list. (Yes, I have set up an owner-listname alias. :-))
The problem seems to be a loop when opening some .forward files: -------------------- 8< -------------------- 16:23:47.289861 connect(16, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) = 0 16:23:47.290158 send(16, "\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\6\0\0\0lhock\0", 18, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 18 16:23:47.292426 lstat64("/home/lhock/.forward", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=40, ...}) = 0 16:23:47.293302 open("/home/lhock/.forward", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 16 16:23:47.296889 lstat64("/home/lhock/.forward", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=40, ...}) = 0 16:23:47.297719 open("/home/lhock/.forward", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 19 [...] 16:23:50.884128 open("/home/lhock/.forward", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 1022 16:23:50.886584 lstat64("/home/lhock/.forward", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=40, ...}) = 0 16:23:50.887138 open("/home/lhock/.forward", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 1023 16:23:50.889588 lstat64("/home/lhock/.forward", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=40, ...}) = 0 16:23:50.890142 open("/home/lhock/.forward", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 EMFILE (Too many open files) 16:23:50.890482 send(7, "<20>Sep 22 16:23:50 postfix/loca"..., 110, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 110 16:23:50.890847 stat64("/var/mail", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0775, st_size=12288, ...}) = 0 16:23:50.891172 stat64("/var/mail/lhock", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=491843, ...}) = 0 16:23:50.891361 open("/var/mail/lhock.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0) = -1 EMFILE (Too many open files) 16:23:50.891662 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = -1 EMFILE (Too many open files) 16:23:50.891755 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = -1 EMFILE (Too many open files) -------------------- 8< -------------------- I can send you the full strace output on request. The file contains: -------------------- 8< -------------------- x...@gmail.com \lhock -------------------- 8< -------------------- # ls -l /home/lhock/.forward -rw-r--r-- 1 lhock rk 40 2010-09-15 09:57 /home/lhock/.forward -------------------- 8< -------------------- Any hints? --leo -- e-mail ::: Leo.Bergolth (at) wu.ac.at fax ::: +43-1-31336-906050 location ::: IT-Services | Vienna University of Economics | Austria