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Re: Large messages causing "illegal seek" and "queue file write error" log entries

From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com)
Date: Tue Mar 06 2007 - 07:52:38 CST


On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 02:42:32PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

> * Ralph Seichter <postfix-mlseichter.de>:
> > Lately, I keep seeing log message pairs like the following:
> >
> > Mar 6 04:43:31 host postfix/postdrop[15763]: warning: uid=0: Illegal seek
> > Mar 6 05:43:31 host postfix/sendmail[15760]: fatal: root(0): queue file write error
> >
> > The apparent one hour gap does not really exist, these messages appear
> > on consecutive lines of the mail log.
>
> ipc_timeout = 3600s

Nothing of the sort, "postdrop" always logs UTC, the OP's TZ is 1 hour
ahead of UTC. I use syslog-ng, and configure syslog-ng to use its own
timestamp...

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        Viktor.

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