At 03:09 PM Friday 7/23/99, Gustavo Rios wrote:
>I am sorry that this topic is lasting so long, but my qmail dies and dies.
>I AM GETTING CRAZY!
>
>My qmail server dies all the time, the messages is:
>lost spwan connection:..... exited .......
Right. Well you need to collect a few more facts then (and I may have
missed some earlier).
Such as:
1. Is there any pattern to this occuring? Time that qmail is up, number of
mails delivered? Time the OS has been up?
2. Does it change if you alter concurrency settings?
3. Are you starting qmail from your bootup scripts (rc, etc) or are you
starting it from a root shell?
4. Are lots of other things running on that system?
5. If so, does qmail stay up longer if they are not started?
6. When you quote messages, especially from logs, can you cut and paste
rather than paraphrase?
7. Can you show the list the log entries which preceed the "lost spawn"
message? Any correlation there? Eg, is it always the start of a remote
delivery that causes the lost spawn? Have you hit some common concurrency
number?
8. Are there any correlating entries in other syslog files?
Regards.
