spam: Re: [MAILSCANNER] Mail Server problems

[Dave Filchak]

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Can you expand on this a bit please?

Dave

Koen Teugels wrote:

> I start using LVM now. So I can change my volumes.
>
> Koen
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> 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_4.4.5_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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