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Old 04-19-2004
Dave Sill
 
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Default Re: frequent mailserver reboots with qmail

"cross" <csross@optonline.net> writes:

> I am running the latest version of qmail on a fully patched Solaris 9
> server. I do not have a large client base - 25 or so. I am finding that I
> get pop3 connections failures a number of times a week and I need to reboot.
> I have some of the add-on software installed (webmail, smtp, spam checking).


Rebooting is the Windows approach to problem solving: sometimes it
seems to help, and Windows "likes" to be freshly booted. But Solaris
isn't Windows. Rebooting is *not* the proper way to fix Solaris (or
other Unix or Linux) problems. A better approach is to determine the
nature of the problem and fix it. Rebooting is generally only
necessary to load a new kernel.

> I do not see alot in the logs, but I find the qmail logs lacking in
> information anyway. Has anyone had problems similar to this?


POP3 connection failures? Sure. Lots of thing can cause that. What
error message are getting? E.g., timeout, connection refused,
connection hangs, etc.

> Does anyone know of any conflicts between the backages or time-out
> setting that may need tweeking.


Nope. It should work "out of the box".

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Dave Sill Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
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