Re: [cobalt-users] Mail stops working on RaQ4.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Brown" <dan@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:55 AM
Subject: [cobalt-users] Mail stops working on RaQ4.


>
> For the last couple of days, every day, our mail services on a RaQ4 have
> frozen up and not allowed POP, SMTP, nor IMAP connections.  Trying to
> connect to these services eventually times out.  All three services freeze
> up at the same time and can be temporarily resolved by stopping the
service
> and restarting it, but will freeze up again 20-36 hours later.
>
> I have so far been unable to find anything in /var/log to reveal any
> information about  what is going on and am tempted to run the mail daemons
> through strace for a day or two though I'm not sure I'll have the
diskspace
> (or patience) for such a log.
>
> Has anyone encountered something similar to this?  I have not yet been
able
> to find anything in the list archives related.
>
>
> TIA.
> dan@xxxxxxxxxx
> ps. On an unrelated note, are there any patches for the active monitor
> service?  It seems that the only service which is ever shown as monitored
is
> email, even though everything else is set to be monitored as well.
>

I was experiencing this when running the spam mods in sendmail. Deleted the
mods and all went back to normal.