From: Mark Watts (m.wattseris.qinetiq.com)
Date: Tue Oct 23 2007 - 04:39:08 CDT

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On Tuesday 23 October 2007 10:11:14 Listaccount wrote:
> Zitat von Mark Watts <m.wattseris.qinetiq.com>:
> > Whenever crond runs a job from /etc/crontab on one of my systems, I
> > get the following error:
> >
> > Oct 23 05:40:12 ukmawwbackup01 postfix/postdrop[22246]: warning:
> > uid=0: Illegal seek
> > Oct 23 06:40:12 ukmawwbackup01 postfix/sendmail[22244]: fatal:
> > root(0): queue file write error
> > Oct 23 06:40:12 ukmawwbackup01 crond[22239]: (root) MAIL (mailed
> > 32619273 bytes of output but got status 0x004b )
>
> This is ~32MByte for the e-mail ....
> Maybe related to this one from the changelog :
>
> 20070529
>
> Bugfix (introduced Postfix 2.3): the sendmail/postdrop
> commands would hang when trying to submit a message larger
> than the per-message size limit. File: postdrop/postdrop.c.
>
> The default size limit is 10MB as far as i know.

Ah yes - I understand the error now thanks.

Mark.

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