problems with mail queuing up

[Harondel J. Sibble]

On 11 Dec 2007 at 12:59, Glenn Steen wrote:

> Really? No "y" in the fourth column of master.cf? Perhaps fo just one
> or two lines? So that you have a "mixed" setup, where some try run in
> the jail, some don't ...? (Depending on which, one might see a problem
> here:-)

Not a single one.  Note: these are the only system updates as per the yum log

Dec 07 05:54:20 Updated: perl-Test-Simple.noarch 0.74-1.el4.rf
Dec 07 05:54:20 Updated: perl-MailTools.noarch 2.02-1.el4.rf
Dec 07 05:54:20 Updated: perl-Time-HiRes.i386 1.9711-1.el4.rf
Dec 10 20:15:58 Updated: perl-MIME-Base64.i386 3.07-1.el4.rf
Dec 10 20:15:58 Updated: perl-Test-Simple.noarch 0.72-1.el4.rf
Dec 10 21:45:49 Updated: perl-Test-Simple.noarch 0.74-1.el4.rf
Dec 10 21:45:49 Updated: perl-bignum.noarch 0.22-1.el4.rf
Dec 11 04:58:46 Updated: perl-Getopt-Long.noarch 2.37-1.el4.rf
Dec 11 04:58:46 Updated: perl-MIME-Base64.i386 3.07-1.el4.rf

Prior to this, there were no updates since the mid November.

Mail stopped working sometime late in the evening of the 7th.
 
> Right, so smtpd works, kind of. But the interraction between qmgr and
> smtp (and scache etc) don't... Might be a fifo file (permission/-like)
> problem.

How do I determine that and repair it?
 
> Do you employ split log files? If so, is there anything in the
> error/warning files at that time?

Not for mail, this is a centos 4 box, just has /var/log/maillog
 
> When you stop postfix, does all the PF processes die? If not, what
> state are they in?

Yup, they are all gone from a ps auxw
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