readqf: cannot open ./d* (including last MailScanner)

[Ramon]

El lun, 06-10-2003 a las 17:46, Mariano Absatz escribió:
> I'm not sure, but I think this might be due to the following: in batch mode 
> (IIRC the default for MailScanner+Sendmail), MS puts all the queue files 
> (qfiles & dfiles) from a batch in /var/mqueue, and then manually invokes 
> sendmail to deliver them.

What does mean that it manually invokes sendmail? if that means that MS
does a 'sendmail -q' over the mqueue queue then I do not need to have a 
cron that does:
/usr/sbin/sendmail -q -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue
Because that is just what MS does, doesn't it?

I have just disable the sendmail -q cron and am waiting for MS to
process the mqueue, if the messages get delivered we've got it.

> 
> However, there's a sendmail process traversing that queue every 15 minutes 
> (by default, you can change that). 

That's my cron.

> 
> If the automatic sendmail queue processing happens after MS has put a given 
> qf+df pair, but before it issues the manual sendmail, the auto sendmail will 
> deliver the message and the manual sendmail will fail ('cause its list of 
> queue files is manually created within MS).

So the readqf error message is from the sendmail invoked by MS, isnt it?

> 
> I'd say you shouldn't care about that... Otherwise, you can try putting 
> MailScanner in queue mode:
> Delivery Method = queue

If what I've just done does not work I will try this.


Thanks!

Ramon Acedo

> El 6 Oct 2003 a las 12:10, Ramon escribió:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > My config:
> > 
> > - MailScanner-4.11-1 but today I have tried too MailScanner-4.24-5 and
> >   the errors has increased considerably (may be because it's faster?)
> > 
> > - mcafee
> > 
> > - Sendmail 8.12.3-6.6
> > 
> > - Linux Kernel 2.4.22
> > 
> > I've got lots of this annoying error in my logs and although
> > the messages are sent correctly sendmail generates an error mail
> > to the sender for every message with this log. I woudn't care about
> > this cause as I said all the messages are sent but my users complain
> > about the error messages they receive.
> > 
> > An example:
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > grep h95LST48031790: mail.log
> > 
> > Oct  5 23:28:30 avant sm-mta[31790]: h95LST48031790:
> > from=<julianov57 at hotmail.com>, size=1659, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> > msgid=<BAY7-F88YEIEktho3sD0000c56e at hotmail.com>, proto=ESMTP,
> > daemon=MTA, relay=bay7-f88.bay7.hotmail.com [64.4.11.88]
> > 
> > Oct  5 23:28:40 avant sm-mta[31815]: h95LST48031790:
> > to=<sf2 at manyanet.org>, delay=00:00:10, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local,
> > pri=120651, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> > 
> > --> Here the message has been sent but...
> > 
> > Oct  5 23:28:49 avant sendmail[31827]: h95LST48031790: SYSERR(root):
> > readqf: cannot open ./dfh95LST48031790: No such file or directory
> > 
> > After sending it seems to trying to process it again!!
> > 
> > Oct  5 23:28:49 avant sendmail[31827]: h95LST48031790:
> > to=<sf2 at manyanet.org>, delay=00:00:19, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local,
> > pri=120651, dsn=5.2.3, stat=Service unavailable
> > 
> > Oct  5 23:28:49 avant sendmail[31827]: h95LST48031790: h95LSn62031827:
> > DSN: Service unavailable
> > 
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > In the list archives are some people asking about this error but I think
> > there's no solution yet.
> > 
> > If I'm not wrong MailScanner puts the scanned messages from mqueue.in to
> > mqueue and then a 'sendmail -q -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue'
> > process this queue. Could it be that mailscanner put first the mail
> > header (./q*) and then the data (./d*) if the time between the copy of
> > the header and the data would be substantial (for example 1 or more
> > seconds) that would explain the problem, but I don't know how to monitor
> > this.
> > 
> > It's not a fs lock problemm I have updated to kernel 2.4.22 where the 
> > flock() is now Posix 2001 compatible (actually from 2.4.21 is
> > compatible).
> > 
> > Today I have upgraded to MailScanner 4.24-5 but there were many more 
> > readqf error messages so I've downgraded after some hours (the rest
> > worked perfectly and faster! ;-)
> > 
> > We'll keep trying to find out a solution, any help would be appreciated.
> > 
> > Ramon Acedo.
> > 
> 
> 
> --
> Mariano Absatz
> El Baby
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Marriage is a fine institution - but I'm not ready for an institution.
>       -- Mae West
-- 
Ramon <ramon at linux-labs.net>
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