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Postfix Archives: Re: Postfix Crashing...

Re: Postfix Crashing...

Subject: Re: Postfix Crashing...
From: Marcelo J. Iturbe (marcelomsm.cl)
Date: Mon Jan 10 2000 - 11:07:08 CST

I created a cron job which detects if postfix is running... if it isn't it
starts it and emails me a note
The very fact that the logs say that at 11:06 the postfix system started
implies that between 11:02 and 11:06 it stoped running.. why? was it a
crash? what caused it to stop running?
this is part of the script that checks if postfix is running or not.
$string=system("ps aux | grep postfix | wc -l");
if ($string==0)
{
         $res=system("/usr/sbin/postfix start");
         // script to send me email specifying that it had to start the
mail server.
}

At 04:08 PM 10/01/00 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 11:42:18AM -0400, Marcelo J. Iturbe wrote:
> > From my maillog I extract the following.
> > Sometime between 11:02:01 and 11:06:06 Postfix crashed.
>
>How do you know it crashed?
>I can only see that it was started 11:06:06 and that it delivered a mail
>successfully 11:02:01 !
>
> > How do I determine why it crashed? I did not find any info in my messages
> > nor maillog file.
>
>Do you have a core in /var/spool/postfix ?

I do not see any core files. Looked in /usr/libexec/postfix/ aswell and
nothing unusual there.

>--
>Ralf Hildebrandt <R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de> www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb
>"Lotus Notes for Dummies" is surely a single page pull out with
>"don't" printed on it.

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