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Re: /var/spool/postfix/defer/ single charcter entries

From: Dave Augustus (daveasupport.kcm.org)
Date: Wed Oct 05 2005 - 18:06:01 CDT


Thanks for the reply.

Yuk!

This is using the Centos distribution with Ext3 partitions on run-of-
mill IDE drives.

Which part are you saying? Centos? Ext3? the drives themselves?

Dave

On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 13:25 -0400, Victor Duchovni wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:33:35AM -0500, Dave Augustus wrote:
>
> > Additionally, removing the files mentioned allows postfix to restart.
> > Needless to say, it doesn't make the servers very reliable.
> >
> > > There is an error that keeps occurring on mutliple which prevents
> > > postfix from successfully restarting. /var/log/maillog says that
> > > defer/A/A is not a valid like this:
> > >
> > > Oct 5 10:30:53 prs2 postfix/postsuper[6611]: fatal: scan_dir_push: open
> > > directory defer/A/A: Not a directory
> > > Oct 5 10:33:17 prs2 postfix/postsuper[9336]: fatal: scan_dir_push: open
> > > directory defer/A/A: Not a directory
> > > Oct 5 10:35:01 prs3 postfix/postsuper[21563]: fatal: scan_dir_push:
> > > open directory defer/A/A: Not a directory
> > > Oct 5 10:35:35 prs3 postfix/postsuper[21798]: fatal: scan_dir_push:
> > > open directory defer/A/A: Not a directory
> > > Oct 5 10:47:01 prs4 postfix/postsuper[25208]: fatal: scan_dir_push:
> > > open directory defer/A/A: Not a directory
> > >
>
> Your filesystem is toast, switch to an operating system/filesystem
> combination that works.