Re: qmail-scanner-queue and validrcptto

Salvatore,
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:17:13 GMT
[email protected] wrote:

> > Hi,
> > On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:09:18 +1000
> > Christian Lerrahn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm rying to get validrcptto to work. I'm using the patch from
> > > http://www.lukasfeiler.com/rocketscience/qmail/ but all the other
> > > patches that are in this patch, I have already been using before.
> > > Now as soon as I use this additional patch, I see errors like
> > > 
> > > X-Qmail-Scanner-1.25st:[mail119046629171810478] Unable to open
> > > pipe to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue [65] (#4.3.0) - 
> > > X-Qmail-Scanner-1.25st:[mail119046629171810478] Unable to close
> > > pipe to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue [65] (#4.3.0) - Illegal seek
> > > 
> > > and even (occasionally)
> > > 
> > > X-Qmail-Scanner-1.25st: Process 10027 closed, parent process died
> > > 
> > > in the logs. The files that correspond to the mentioned emails
> > > in /var/spool/qmailscan/tmp and /var/spool/qmailscan/working
> > > exist. I have no clue what could be going wrong there. The error
> > > sounds to me as if a file was not properly accessible but without
> > > this patch, everything is fine.
> > > 
> > > Any hints?
> > 
> > I still have the problem with the dying processes. The pipe was a
> > problem with the way I installed the binaries. They ended up not
> > being the complete set and qmail-start would not find qmail-todo.
> > Could it be that the dying process is triggered by a sending relay
> > suddenly disconnecting?
> > 
> 
> If seems to me that you have some problems with your qmail
> installation, maybe by the patch. The files in the
> directories /var/spool/qmailscan/tmp and ../working are from old
> mails and they will lay there until you purge it (always with qmail
> off to avoid deleting a still processing mail). The problem with
> qmail-queue and dying parent process come from elsewhere.

The files I have deleted but even the first error message had nothing
to do with that. It was really just the absence of qmail-todo that
triggered it.

> Try increasing softlimit.

Thanks. I don't know for sure that this problem did never occur without
the patch. I might just never have realised. However, I'll try
increasing the softlimit and see if that gets me rid of it.

Cheers,
Christian

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