[courier-users] Re: Further problem about fedora 2 and courier-imap

[Sent to me directly, so I am posting my response...]

On Monday 21 February 2005 11:20 pm, Angus Lee wrote:
> Actually, when the first time i found this "dead" file in two
> servers, i reboot them.
>
> 1st server (120GB IDE harddisk) : the bootup filesystem check found
> error in "/home" ( my maildir partition ) and goes into maintenance
> mode. I run fsck and it fixed the error. Then i reboot again and it
> pass the bootup filesystem check. However, those file generate again
> meanwhile.

What generated them?

> 2nd server (146x3 SCSI RAID 5): the bootup filesystem check found
> error in "/home" (my maildir parition ) and goes into maintenance
> mode. However, fsck can't fix the problem as it said the Inode table
> corrupted. No matter how i fsck and use different super block, it
> still fail. Finally, i re-formatted that partition and rebuild my
> maildir again. However, those file generate again meanwhile as well!

Again, what created those files?

> I'm running about ten server with Fedora 2, with SCSI RAID5, SCSI
> SATA, single SATA and single IDE harddisk. For those non-email server
> (without qmail, courier-imap), no problem in filesystem at all. But
> only these two mail server.

Ah, qmail is delivering them, no?
The qmail list is down the hall, second door on your left. :-)

Seriously though, something is very wrong with those servers, file
systems, binaries, or some combination thereof...

jerry


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