+-------- Dave Sill wrote:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| >I'm running qmail 1.03 on a linux machine (Debian 2.1 w/ kernel 2.2.12).
| >I came in this morning and was getting the following error in syslog
| >for every local delivery attempt: Sep 22 07:05:19 thom qmail:
| >938001919.847530 delivery 8708: deferral: Aack,_child_crashed._(#4.3.0)/
[...]
| >What I'm wondering
| >is, is there something specific to look for should this happen again?
|
| This means that a program run by qmail-local, probably from a .qmail
| file, is failing.
I looked at the archived message you posted about, as well as every other
result I could find, but none of them seem to apply to this situation.
Here's some more information/clarification. I'm using fastforward to
handle virtual domains as well as local aliases. The message delivery
attempt that I posted above was to 'alias', which gets forwarded to
'user'. All that is in '~/user/.qmail' is './Maildir/', so there's no
sort external programs being called. After that one delivery failed
with that error message, _every_ local delivery started failing (~150
delivery attempts before I caught it). I killed qmail-send so I could
try restarting everything, but when I ran 'sh /var/qmail/rc', I'd get
a segmentation fault. I suppose I should have checked out qmail-start
to see if that was the cause of it or what, but I was more concerned
with getting the server functional. After a reboot, everything worked
fine. This was all after about 5 days of uptime. Might there be some
sort of leak somewhere that could use up enough resources to cause this
to happen? All the machine runs is qmail, qmail-pop3d and ssh. Maybe
2.2.12 isn't be best linux kernel version to be running? I'm at a
loss.
Hopefully, if this happens again it'll be at a time of day where I can
afford some downtime. (:
- Carey
