I experienced some, imho, weird qmail behaviour today and I'm curious as to what could
possibly have caused it.
My qmail installation have been running happily without any problems at all for months
but today, for no apparent reason, qmail-send stopped working.
The only changes I had done to the system was to move some aliases from /etc/aliases
to .~alias/.qmail-whatever. After running "newaliases" (the version from the
fastforward package) qmail-send stopped working. It probably had not been working for
a few minutes but this was when i noticed it.
the qmail-send log shows occurances of the following starting some 10 minutes before i
noticed the problem:
delivery 136988: failure: Unable_to_run_qmail-remote./
delivery 136987: deferral: Unable_to_run_qmail-getpw./
warning: trouble injecting bounce message, will try later
Running /service/qmail-send/run manually produced nothing but an immediate return to
the prompt without any kind of output or messages. Same when running /var/qmail/rc.
Charles Cazabon's queue-repair reported that some messages in the queue was owned by
the wrong user but fixing this, using "queue-repair -r", did not rememedy the
situation.
After some time looking at configuration files and wondering what the hell could be
wrong I decided to run the (in?)famous "make setup check" from the patched sources.
Well, what do you know, suddenly it works again, patches and all.
What I am wondering is what could possibly have caused this, apparent, corruption of
the binaries?
The system:
Slackware Linux (kernel 2.2.13)
Qmail with qmailqueue,ext2 sync and tarpit patches
Mail is delivered to /var/spool/mail
fastforward with /etc/aliases
qmail-scanner using hbdev's scanning engine.
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Lars Hansson Technical Consultant/System Administrator
UNET, Inc. Makati City, Philippines
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public key: http://www.unet.net.ph/~lars/gpgkey.txt
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