On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 at 11:04:01 -0500, Marshal Newrock wrote:
> Before anyone says "Duh" I'll add that it wasn't logging after space was
> made and things were logging again.
>
> Anyway, after /var/log filled up, pflogsumm started reporting lots of
> messages with no size data. When I finally looked closely at it, I saw no
> entries from qmgr after the point at which the /var/log had filled up.
> Mail was still being delivered without a problem, though.
>
> The solution was simple enough. '/etc/init.d/postfix restart' got it
> working again. I didn't try 'postfix reload', as I didn't think that
> would work.
>
> This isn't a major concern to me, and hopefully it's not something that
> will happen often. It was strange, though, so I thought I'd pass it on.
>
> The postfix version is 1.1.11, the standard Debian Woody package, and it
> is qmgr, not nqmgr.
>
> --
> Marshal Newrock, Simon's Rock College of Bard
> Caution: product may be hot after heating

Maybe it's related to Debian bug "#96201: Postfix: qmgr no longer logs
from address" ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=96201 ).

Wietse (on 14 Dec 2001) wrote to postfix-users (it's quoted above):

"This happens when you restart syslogd while Postfix runs chrooted
but no syslog socket exists inside the chroot jail."

Just a tip

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