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Zitat von Dave Stevens <g...@uniserve.com>:
I have a vps running ubuntu 10.04LTS on an openVZ platform. On top
of that I installed Virtualmin GPL to help host web sites and
simplify mail setup. I don't have much need for mail at the moment
but I expect to in the next few months.
Recently I ssh'd into the machine and did this:
logwatch --mailto=m...@mydomain.com
and after a few seconds I got a series of errors ending at line 870
in logwatch. The vps has 1.5 gigs guaranteed, 8GB burst, two
cores, 40 gigs storage. Lots of resources as far as I can see.
Investigation showed postfix not running. So...
I issued this command to try to start postfix:
sudo service postfix start
and syslog shows this output:
Nov 4 17:01:15 cl28810 postfix/master[11337]: fatal: bind:
private/lmtp: No such file or directory
Nov 4 17:01:36 cl28810 postfix/postfix-script[11515]: warning: not
owned by postfix: /var/spool/postfix/private/anvil
Nov 4 17:01:36 cl28810 postfix/postfix-script[11516]: warning: not
owned by postfix: /var/spool/postfix/private/lmtp
Nov 4 17:01:36 cl28810 postfix/postfix-script[11517]: warning: not
owned by postfix: /var/spool/postfix/private/scache
Nov 4 17:01:36 cl28810 postfix/postfix-script[11518]: warning: not
owned by postfix: /var/spool/postfix/private/maildrop
Nov 4 17:01:37 cl28810 postfix/postfix-script[11549]: starting the
Postfix mail system
Nov 4 17:01:37 cl28810 postfix/master[11550]: fatal: bind:
private/lmtp: No such file or directory
I don't understand the significance of these errors, although I can
see they could cause problems.
logwatch used to work on this machine so postfix was working then,
a few months back. I had a look into /var/spool/postfix/private
and got:
# ls -l /var/spool/postfix/private/
ls: cannot access /var/spool/postfix/private/anvil: No such file or
directory
ls: cannot access /var/spool/postfix/private/lmtp: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /var/spool/postfix/private/scache: No such file
or directory
ls: cannot access /var/spool/postfix/private/maildrop: No such file
or directory
total 0
s????????? ? ? ? ? ? anvil
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 bounce
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-09-27 00:20 bsmtp
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 defer
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 discard
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 error
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-09-27 00:20 ifmail
s????????? ? ? ? ? ? lmtp
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 local
s????????? ? ? ? ? ? maildrop
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-09-27 00:20 mailman
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 proxymap
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 proxywrite
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 relay
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 retry
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 rewrite
s????????? ? ? ? ? ? scache
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-09-27 00:20 scalemail-backend
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 smtp
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 tlsmgr
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 trace
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-09-27 00:20 uucp
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 verify
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2011-11-09 16:06 virtual
and again don't understand what the significance of these errors
is, or, more to the point, what to do to either diagnose or fix
the problem.
Your (virtual) filesystem is hosed. Nothing Postfix can do about and
no way Postfix can operate with such errors. Reboot the Hardware
Node with full filesystem check. What OpenVZ kernel you are running
and what filesystem are the containers on?
Regards
Andreas
# uname -a
Linux cl28810 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.028stab091.1PAE #1 SMP Wed Jun 1
13:59:03 MSD 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
# cat mtab
/dev/simfs / reiserfs rw,usrquota,grpquota 0 0
Like this, will get to the fsck later today. Thanks,
Dave
--
It is told that such are the aerodynamics and wing loading of the
bumblebee that, in principle, it cannot fly...if all this be
true...life among bumblebees must bear a remarkable resemblance to
life in the United States.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith, in American Capitalism: The Concept of
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