My problems continue - Please help ASAP

[Julian Field]

At 22:02 21/01/2003, you wrote:
>It seems like it's catching up slowly. I haven't done a couple of these
>yet, but I wanted to respond.
>
>Only one version of MailScanner has been installed
>ps -ef | grep sendmail gives the output at the bottom.
>I believe the hardware is ok
>Plenty of disk space free
>
>Haven't run sendmail -q -v yet. Should I run that while MailScanner is
>running, or stop MailScanner first, or leave MailScanner running, but
>spam turned off?

Shouldn't matter. Probably worth killing off the sendmail processes first
though, in case you have a version that won't run multiple simultaneous
queue runners.


>Thanks,
>James
>
>root at pcalaklx01 log]# ps -ef | grep sendmail
>root       779     1  0 14:43 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: accepting
>connections
>root       795     1  0 14:43 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -q15m
>root     11945     1  0 15:44 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKWjO10074
>[10.96.
>root     11948     1  0 15:44 ?        00:00:00 sendmail:
>./h0LKX4O10098: from q
>root     11951     1  0 15:44 ?        00:00:00 sendmail:
>./h0LKUcO09776: from q
>root     11954     1  0 15:44 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKYqO10331
>[10.96.
>root     11957     1  0 15:44 ?        00:00:00 sendmail:
>./h0LKaXO10640: from q
>root     12297     1  0 15:45 ?        00:00:00 sendmail:
>./h0LKK3D08065: from q
>root     12300     1  0 15:45 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKNMO08578
>[10.96.
>root     12303     1  0 15:45 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKHlD07880
>[10.96.
>root     12306     1  0 15:45 ?        00:00:00 sendmail:
>./h0LKL3D08224: from q
>root     12309     1  0 15:45 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKK5D08067
>[10.96.
>root     12504     1  0 15:46 ?        00:00:00 sendmail:
>./h0LKToO09599: from q
>root     12507     1  0 15:46 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKPkO09049
>[10.96.
>root     12510     1  0 15:46 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKTuO09613
>[10.96.
>root     12513     1  0 15:46 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKQPO09134
>[10.96.
>root     12516     1  0 15:46 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKRYO09295
>[10.96.
>root     12530   779  0 15:46 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: server
>dfw7-1.relay.ma
>root     12572   779  0 15:46 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: server
>ashd1-1.relay.m
>root     12606   779  0 15:46 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: server
>La03mail24.powe
>root     12635   779  0 15:46 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: server
>[64.152.200.111
>root     12640   779  0 15:47 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: server
>offerchkmail11.
>root     12755     1  0 15:47 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKc9O10871
>[10.96.
>root     12757     1  0 15:47 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: ./h0LKhi601017
>[10.96.
>root     12759     1  0 15:47 ?        00:00:00 sendmail:
>./h0LKdIO11089: from q
>root     12764     1  0 15:47 ?        00:00:00 sendmail:
>./h0LKdNO11106: from q
>root     12767     1  0 15:47 ?        00:00:00 sendmail:
>./h0LKc4O10857: from q
>root     12795   779  0 15:47 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: server
>chi6-1.relay.ma
>root     12814   779  0 15:47 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: server
>members2.emailw
>root     12815   779  0 15:47 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: server
>port-64-1956812
>root     12820 12606  0 15:47 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: h0LLlV612820
>La03mail2
>root     12825 12572  0 15:47 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: h0LLlX612825
>ashd1-1.r
>root     12841   779  0 15:47 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: startup with
>[209.164.
>root     12864 12815  0 15:47 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: h0LLlh612864
>port-64-1
>root     12866   779  0 15:47 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: startup with
>12.5.161.
>root     12875 12635  0 15:47 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: h0LLlk612875
>[64.152.2
>root     12878   779  0 15:47 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: startup with
>mail11.at
>root     12880   779  0 15:47 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: server
>mail228.mb11.co
>root     12882   779  0 15:47 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: server
>wic1.worldatama
>root     12893 12880  0 15:47 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: h0LLlu612893
>mail228.m
>root     12894 12882  0 15:47 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: h0LLlu612894
>wic1.worl
>root     12896   735  0 15:47 pts/0    00:00:00 grep sendmail
>You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
>[root at pcalaklx01 log]#
>
>
>On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 16:38, Julian Field wrote:
> > At 21:37 21/01/2003, you wrote:
> > >A new problem(could be related to my other problems) came up on the
> > >server we have running mailscanner. Mail was not being routed for some
> > >reason. The server was recieving mail, but it was all getting stuck in
> > >mqueue.in and/or mqueue.
> > >
> > >I restarted MailScanner(4.10-1) and that didn't seem to do anything.
> > >
> > >We still have a ton of messages in mqeueu.in and quite a bit in mqueue
> > >as well. Should it still deliver everything? It's delivering mail but I
> > >can't figure out where it's picking it up from.
> > >
> > >Has anyone seen this before. I downloaded the maillog and the only
> > >problem I see is a lot of timeouts while trying to check the RBL's.
> > >Currently I'm using ORDB-RBL and Infinite-Monkeys.
> > >
> > >We had problems where our server just dies. Could these timeouts have
> > >anything to do with it?
> > >
> > >I'm open to any suggestions.
> >
> > Start by switching off the spam checking.
> > Make sure you only have 1 version of MailScanner running.
> > Make sure you only have the sendmail processes running that are started as
> > part of MailScanner. Be careful you don't have any running with both daemon
> > options "-bd -q15m".
> > Make sure all your hardware works.
> > Make sure you haven't run out of disk space anywhere (do a "df -k" to
> check).
> > Run "sendmail -q -v" and see what it prints out as it tries to deliver all
> > the outgoing queue.
> >
> > --
> > Julian Field
> > www.MailScanner.info
> > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

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Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support