Re: /var/spool/qmailscan/tmp and /var/spool/qmailscan/working

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:31:27 +0200
Salvatore Toribio <[email protected]> wrote:

> At 17:09 +1000 22-09-2007, Christian Lerrahn wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I have the problem that on my server it has happened before that
> >because of an unfortunate setup /var ran out of space and the
> >qmail processes stopped. Now I have the impression that when I made
> >space and restarted the qmail services, some of the files
> >in /var/spool/qmailscan/tmp and /var/spool/qmailscan/working seemed
> >to not be processed any more and stayed there forever. I assume that
> >these are just copies of email in the queue and I could safely
> >delete them but before I end up losing plenty of email, I wanted to
> >make sure. Can I safely purge these 2 directories without risking
> >data loss? If not, is there a simple way of recovering emails that
> >are stuck in there?
> >
> 
> Hi
> 
> You should stop qmail and wait until all the active connections are 
> close properly, then you can safely remove purge those directories, 
> and restart qmail.

I did as told but see a lot of errors of the sort

X-Qmail-Scanner-1.25st:[mail119046351171828276] Unable to open pipe
to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue [65] (#4.3.0) -
X-Qmail-Scanner-1.25st:[mail119046351171828276] Unable to close pipe
to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue [65] (#4.3.0) - Illegal seek

now. Is this a result of me purging the directories? The strange thing
is that even if I undo it and these files are there and have correct
permissions, I still get the error message.

Cheers,
Christian

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