Re: sendmail.postfix not starting due to time mismatch

2009-12-25 Thread Mehul Ved
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Glad to hear it's working well once again.  Say, since this appears to have > been > an excessive load issue, would you mind posting some basic specs for this > server?  Such as processor type and qty, num cores, total system memory, disk >

Re: sendmail.postfix not starting due to time mismatch

2009-12-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mehul Ved put forth on 12/23/2009 2:02 AM: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: >> I think your system is in a state of serious overload. There are >> tons of "connection refused" for internal services, and watchdog timeout >> and other timeouts that should NEVER EVER happen. >>

Re: sendmail.postfix not starting due to time mismatch

2009-12-23 Thread Mehul Ved
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Noel Jones wrote: > Nothing useful here.  Everything you show looks quite normal, although the > lack of qmgr logging is probably significant. Probably more interesting > stuff is logged earlier. Yes, I missed the watchdog timeout earlier. It's been corrected now

Re: sendmail.postfix not starting due to time mismatch

2009-12-23 Thread Mehul Ved
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > I think your system is in a state of serious overload. There are > tons of "connection refused" for internal services, and watchdog timeout > and other timeouts that should NEVER EVER happen. > > Reduce default_process_limit to 50, do "postfi

Re: sendmail.postfix not starting due to time mismatch

2009-12-21 Thread Noel Jones
On 12/21/2009 5:01 AM, Mehul Ved wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Noel Jones wrote: Your original complaint is that postfix is not sending or receiving mail. The only evidence I see of that in the log file is Dec 19 21:21:42 www postfix/smtpd[18342]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown

Re: sendmail.postfix not starting due to time mismatch

2009-12-21 Thread Wietse Venema
Mehul Ved: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > > You write that mail is stuck in the active queue. > > Have you looked at the Postfix logs for warnings? > > > > http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#logging > > > > Look for obvious signs of trouble > > Dec 19 00:51:55 www

Re: sendmail.postfix not starting due to time mismatch

2009-12-21 Thread Mehul Ved
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > You write that mail is stuck in the active queue. > Have you looked at the Postfix logs for warnings? > > http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#logging > > Look for obvious signs of trouble Dec 19 00:51:55 www postfix/local[25863]: warnin

Re: sendmail.postfix not starting due to time mismatch

2009-12-21 Thread Wietse Venema
You write that mail is stuck in the active queue. Have you looked at the Postfix logs for warnings? http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#logging Look for obvious signs of trouble Postfix logs all failed and successful deliveries to a logfile. The file is usually called /var/log/maillog or /v

Re: sendmail.postfix not starting due to time mismatch

2009-12-21 Thread Mehul Ved
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > This host is a web server that happens to run postfix correct?  Not the other > way 'round? It's mainly a mail server which also runs a web server. >  Does this web server run apache and php? Yes. >  Were both fully patched > up to the da

Re: sendmail.postfix not starting due to time mismatch

2009-12-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mehul Ved put forth on 12/21/2009 6:37 AM: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Mehul Ved wrote: >> This is something I found today >> Dec 18 16:23:35 www postfix/pickup[23157]: fatal: watchdog timeout >> Dec 19 00:52:16 www postfix/pickup[25514]: fatal: watchdog timeout >> Dec 19 05:35:47 www postf

Re: sendmail.postfix not starting due to time mismatch

2009-12-21 Thread Mehul Ved
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Mehul Ved wrote: > This is something I found today > Dec 18 16:23:35 www postfix/pickup[23157]: fatal: watchdog timeout > Dec 19 00:52:16 www postfix/pickup[25514]: fatal: watchdog timeout > Dec 19 05:35:47 www postfix/smtp[27520]: fatal: watchdog timeout > Dec 19

Re: sendmail.postfix not starting due to time mismatch

2009-12-21 Thread Mehul Ved
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > At the worst, it looks like your qmgr daemon isn't running, or isn't being > called, or, at the least, isn't being logged.  Assuming it's the first, why > isn't your qmgr daemon running?  If it's the 2nd, why isn't your cleanup > process > h

Re: sendmail.postfix not starting due to time mismatch

2009-12-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mehul Ved put forth on 12/21/2009 5:01 AM: > logs after the problem occurred - http://pastebin.ca/1722318 > logs before the problem occurred - http://pastebin.ca/1722322 You inbound for relay (I assume so due to the TLS): Dec 19 00:03:18 www postfix/smtpd[23607]: connect from c-24-34-20-2.hsd1.m

Re: sendmail.postfix not starting due to time mismatch

2009-12-21 Thread Mehul Ved
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Noel Jones wrote: > Your original complaint is that postfix is not sending or receiving mail. >  The only evidence I see of that in the log file is > > Dec 19 21:21:42 www postfix/smtpd[18342]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from > unknown[190.2.225.89]: 550 5.1.1 : Recipie

Re: sendmail.postfix not starting due to time mismatch

2009-12-20 Thread Noel Jones
On 12/20/2009 3:08 AM, Mehul Ved wrote: You'll need to share details of your config and unaltered log entries showing the problem. http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail Here's the logs which shows the time mismatch http://pastebin.ca/1720853 Your original complaint is that postfix is

Re: sendmail.postfix not starting due to time mismatch

2009-12-20 Thread Wietse Venema
Mehul Ved: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Noel Jones wrote: > > You'll need to share details of your config and unaltered log entries > > showing the problem. > > > > http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail > > Here's the logs which show

Re: sendmail.postfix not starting due to time mismatch

2009-12-20 Thread Mehul Ved
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Noel Jones wrote: > You'll need to share details of your config and unaltered log entries > showing the problem. > > http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail Here's the logs which shows the time mismatch http://pastebin.ca/1720853 $ postconf -n alias_databas

Re: sendmail.postfix not starting due to time mismatch

2009-12-19 Thread Noel Jones
On 12/19/2009 5:58 PM, Mehul Ved wrote: Hi, The machine has been running fine since past few months, Yesterday suddenly it stopped sending and receiving mails. Checking the log shows that the time changes by +5.5 hours when sendmail is (re)started. +5.5 is the difference between GMT and the timez

sendmail.postfix not starting due to time mismatch

2009-12-19 Thread Mehul Ved
Hi, The machine has been running fine since past few months, Yesterday suddenly it stopped sending and receiving mails. Checking the log shows that the time changes by +5.5 hours when sendmail is (re)started. +5.5 is the difference between GMT and the timezone for the server which is set to IST. On