Re: [cobalt-users] smtp not responding

[phoenix hawk <phawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi...

Had this problem on a old raq4 box (in production use since
year 2000 or so). It happens at almost the same time every single
day, we tried to change the sendmail.conf file so that the
mail daemon shuts down at a higher load, etc but to no avail.

until...

The high load coincides with the webalizer/analog scripts' attempt
to generate the web log data. I guess the problem was due to the
large amount of logs we had, so we deleted everything from year 2000
to 2002. Leaving only the current years' worth of log files around.

So far, the problem has not happened again. However, this might
not apply for your case, it's just something that happened, and
we don't own that many cobalt boxes to be able to generalize this
problem/solution/finding. :)


Regards.

Jabbour, Danny NYC wrote:
> > The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Server has not been responding
> > since Thu 21 Aug 2003 11:45:15 AM EDT.
>
>
> I have been receiving the same message for days.  The server isn't down, as
> I've tested it when the monitor claims it's down.  SMTP works fine.  I have
> nothing trapped in my queue.  I have no idea whats going on... Are you by
> any chance running any filtering or DNS Black lists?  Anyone have any ideas
> on this problem??
>
>
> Daniel Jabbour
> Citco Technology Management
> 350 Madison Avenue, 12th Floor
> New York, NY 10017
> 212.918.9759
>
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