a very confused mailscanner?

[Ugo Bellavance]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Randy Schultz [mailto:schultz at SGI.COM]
> Envoyé : Monday, November 10, 2003 6:14 PM
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : a very confused mailscanner?
> 
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> We've recently set up a testbed to test mailscanner under 
> constant medium
> to heavy usage scenarios.  After a particularly good beating 
> mailscanner
> went out to lunch with:
> Nov 10 17:10:35 d3 nosa_MailScanner[834]: Could not open file 
> >/var/spool/mqueue/nosa/mailscanner_work/834/hAALp9dR077394.he
> ader: Too many open files
> Nov 10 17:10:35 d3 nosa_MailScanner[834]: Cannot create + 
> lock headers file 
> /var/spool/mqueue/nosa/mailscanner_work/834/hAALp9dR077394.header,
> 
> 

Have you looked at /etc/security/limits.conf?

> At first I thought it was insufficient file descriptors 
> available so I up'ed
> that limit and rebooted.  No effect.  The in queue has only 
> 1400 emails to
> be processed, system is idle, tons of all resources available.
> 
> Anybody have any idea what's up?
> 
> --
>  Randy    (schultz at sgi.com)  715-726-2832          <*>
> 
>  The Penguin Cometh
>