Mail Server problems

[Koen Teugels]

I start using LVM now. So I can change my volumes.

Koen

Scott Silva wrote:
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      Dave Filchak wrote:
      | Hello,
      |
      | Forgive me as this may or may not be a true MailScanner
      issue but I
      | would appreciate some input from the experts on this list.
      |
      | My mail server has been periodically rejecting mail with
      the following
      | error [logs from sending mail-relay]:
      |
      | 2004-12-20 18:07:49.596345500 delivery 12914: deferral:
      |
Connected_to_199.243.151.38_but_sender_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_452_4.4.
      _Insufficient_disk_space;_try_again_later/

      |
      | <snip>
      |
      | My logs report:
      |
      | Dec 20 18:15:29 rosewood sendmail[20639]: iBKNFTDN020639:
      low on space
      | (SMTP-DAEMON needs 1451858 bytes + 100 blocks in
      /var/spool/mqueue), max
      | avail: 0
      |
      | My disk usage looks like:
      |
      | Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
      | /dev/hda2             572M  375M  168M  70% /
      | /dev/hda1             122M   24M   92M  21% /boot
      | /dev/hda3             5.4G  2.1G  3.1G  41% /home
      | none                  496M     0  496M   0% /dev/shm
      | /dev/hda7              28G   15G   12G  56% /usr
      | /dev/hda5             2.0G  1.8G  101M  95% /var
      |
      | So, it is obvious I have a disk space issue in my /var
      partition.
      | Someone on the list recently suggested copying my /var/mail
      directories
      | to say my /usr partition and then symlinking to it from
      /var. Any
      | thoughts on the viability of this? Also, when I first built
      this
      | machine, I had not anticipated using MailScanner and
      Spamassassin and
      | mail quarantines etc, so what do most of you assign for a
      partition size
      | to /var when you are building your machines?
      |
      | I greatly appreciate any help anyone has to offer on this
      as I have some
      | very agitated clients.
      Try df -i and check for inode problems. I had this awhile
      back with a
      LOT of 0 length log files from a bad samba log rotate.
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