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Subject: Re: unknown mail transport (more info)
From: Admin Mailing Lists (mlistintergrafix.net)
Date: Mon Apr 10 2000 - 11:44:38 CDT

I did do that too..that is all the warnings/panics/fatals since postfix
was started w/ postfix stop, postfix start..and before the transport
errors started happening.
If you want ALL my egrep output for previous runs of postfix, how far do
you want back?? the current day, 2 days, 3 days..7 days?

-Tony
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Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
adminintergrafix.net Intergrafix Internet Services

    "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today"
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On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Wietse Venema wrote:

> Well, it looks like you haven't understood my mail.
>
> So I will repeat the question.
>
> Can you type the following command:
>
> egrep '(warning|fatal|panic):' /var/log/maillog
>
> Or whatever your maillog file is.
>
> In order to solve the problem I NEED THE ENTIRE OUTPUT not just a
> tail that starts after the problem has already happened.
>
> Wietse
>
> Admin Mailing Lists:
> >
> > i restarted postfix and immediately started tail -f'ing the log for
> > suggested strings..i saw
> >
> > Apr 10 11:56:30 athena postfix/qmgr[18850]: warning: mail_scan_any: got
> > EOF; expected: string
> > Apr 10 11:56:30 athena postfix/qmgr[18850]: warning: private/local:
> > malformed response
> >
> > then about 25 unknown mail transport errors from the qmgr process
> > there's a similar pattern in previous parts of the log
> >
> > PID 18850's entry is
> > postfix 18850 0.6 0.3 1264 688 ? S 11:56 0:00 qmgr -l -t fifo
> > -u
> >
> >
> > -Tony
> > .-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-.
> > Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
> > adminintergrafix.net Intergrafix Internet Services
> >
> > "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today"
> > http://cygnus.ncohafmuta.com http://www.intergrafix.net
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> >
> > On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Wietse Venema wrote:
> >
> > > Admin Mailing Lists:
> > > >
> > > > I have these messages in my daily maillog:
> > > >
> > > > Apr 6 15:55:15 athena postfix/qmgr[6849]: 28BFA1DA87:
> > > > to=<majordomointergrafix.net>, relay=none, delay=1,
> > > > status=deferred (unknown mail transport error)
> > >
> > > You should look for warnings too. For example:
> > >
> > > egrep '(warning|fatal|panic):' /var/log/maillog
> > >
> > > The name of the logfile differs per system. See your syslog.conf
> > > file for exact pathnames.
> > >
> > > The error that caused mail to be deferred could be a little
> > > back in the maillog file.
> > >
> > > Wietse
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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