Hey all,
So I have a new qmail install here at my new company. Threw out Exchange
before it was even set up, though after they had paid for it. No worries.
I have Qmail running as it should, been great since last Friday when I set
it up, but yesterday I had 3 seperate events of the following error (as
logged in /var/log/messages):
Apr 22 12:02:43 mailsf inetd[256]: smtp/tcp server failing (looping),
service terminated
This killed everyones ability to connect to our mailserver, and I could not
telnet to port 25 as well. The problem was not with Qmal, but with inetd
itself. A kill -HUP on inetd made the problem go away. It happened 3
times yesterday, but it seemed quite randomly. Hasn't happened again. I
had maybe 10,000 emails go through the server (a PII 400), so load was not
an issue (I have another Qmail setup elsewhere doing 50,000 a day via inetd
- tcpserver is on the plate, but no time yet - not that 50k is alot).
Any ideas what would chop down my port 25 abilities with inetd?
Thanks very much,
Brian
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Brian D. Kohl
Chemconnect, Inc.
415.364.3328
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