Recent error has me baffled...

Eric Sandquist esandquist at IHMS.NET
Fri Mar 12 21:51:25 GMT 2004


Ha... Got at least part of it....

The problem has been related to MailWatch - monitoring tool for
MailScanner...  It appears that the software stopped adding data to the
database... Don't know exactly why...

Maybe too many records in the maillog table: 479314 records.... no primary
key...

Most of these records are irrelevant and are old... Has anyone else had
issues with MailWatch?

I found it to be very useful in training bayes and in releasing messages
that were incorrectly tagged.  But data that is over a few days old needs to
be removed automaticly.

Eric



-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
Behalf Of Eric Sandquist
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 4:20 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Recent error has me baffled...


Only 38% inodes in use on that partition.

Also I have tried disabling clamav and virus scanning, this got rid of the
LibCamAV error but the pipe break occurs at the same spot.

When running with debug = yes and debug spamassassin = yes, I just get:

/usr/sbin/check_MailScanner: line 118: 28058 Broken pipe $process $config

but no other info,either on screen or in the various logs to indicate what
has happened.

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
Behalf Of Stephen Swaney
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 4:00 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Recent error has me baffled...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Eric Sandquist
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 4:43 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Recent error has me baffled...
>
> 85M available and perms are 777 - until I get this figured out..
> we block attachements over 15M at the incoming postfix.
> Eric

Sometimes the less obvious answer is the fact that you've reached the
maximum number of inodes available on the file system. Try:

        df -i <filesystem>

Note the exact command may be different on your OS but you get the idea.

Steve

Stephen Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
Steve.Swaney at FSL.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Raymond Dijkxhoorn
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 3:42 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Recent error has me baffled...
>
>
> Hi!
>
> > Does the /root/tmp dir exist? Does it have writable permissions? Is the
> > partition holdint /root full? Disabling ClamAV will at least allow your
> > mail to flow again appears.
>
> And perhaps obvious, does it have space ? :)
>
> Bye,
> Raymond.
>
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