mqueue.in just gets bigger - no delivery?

[Res]

Hi Brett,

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Brett Charbeneau wrote:

> Config: calling custom init function MailWatchLogging

Try disable this above option


> 	I've got "Max Children = 5":
>
> 29629 ?        SNs    0:00 MailScanner: master waiting for children, sleeping
> 29630 ?        SN     0:29 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
> 29656 ?        SN     0:29 MailScanner: virus scanning
> 29681 ?        SN     0:27 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
> 29694 ?        SN     0:28 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
> 29717 ?        SN     0:28 MailScanner: virus scanning
> 29976 ?        DN     0:00 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
> 29993 ?        RN     0:07 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
> 30052 ?        RN     0:03 MailScanner: checking with SpamAssassin
> 30060 ?        DNs    0:00 MailScanner: virus scanning
> 30061 ?        DNs    0:00 MailScanner: virus scanning


This seems wrong... if you only have max kids 5, Did you do any upgrade
in your fixing of the box?

In an earlier post you showed us with several....
 	MailScanner: starting children
you showed us:
> root 29629 1 0 10:01 ? 00:00:00 MailScanner: starting children
> root 29630 29629 26 10:01 ? 00:00:08 MailScanner: starting children
> root 29656 29629 28 10:01 ? 00:00:06 MailScanner: starting children
> root 29681 29629 22 10:01 ? 00:00:02 MailScanner: starting children

This looks wrong....

You should only see 1 of these once all kids have started, in starting the 
kids you will see two of them, the 1 perm one and the kid starting up, 
once the kid has started you should see:
 	MailScanner: waiting for messages

It looks like something is running more than one copy and it is not 
starting properly.

You indicated tmp was corrupted, silly question but does /tmp still have 
permisions of 1777 ?

Ive done rip out replacements similar to this as im sure most others have 
and never had any hiccups like this.

If you set the scan messages to off so MailScanner essentially is just a 
relay only, does mail flow again?

Check Sendmail Dir perms:
drwxrwx---   2 smmsp  smmsp  4096 2006-08-31 08:45 clientmqueue/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root   4096 2006-08-31 08:45 mqueue/
drwxr-x---   2 root   bin    4096 2006-08-31 08:45 mqueue.in/


I also strongly suggest that you should upgrade,  4.51 is rather old
any many of us may be trying to offer suggestions based on later 
releases. (like my display info above, cant recall when that was changed)


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Res
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