From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 15:51:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB6D016A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:51:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from cmsrelay03.mx.net (cmsrelay03.mx.net [165.212.11.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4215F43D6E for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:50:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from noackjr@compgeek.com) Received: from cmsapps01.cms.usa.net (165.212.11.136) by cmsoutbound.mx.net with SMTP; 12 Jan 2004 23:50:13 -0000 Received: from optimator.noacks.org [65.69.2.105] by cmsapps01.cms.usa.net (ASMTP/noackjr@usa.net) via mtad (C8.MAIN.3.11E) with ESMTP id 782iaLXYk0457M36; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:50:10 GMT X-USANET-Auth: 65.69.2.105 AUTH noackjr@usa.net optimator.noacks.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BA0F60F0; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:50:09 -0600 (CST) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04638-04; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:49:58 -0600 (CST) Received: from www.noacks.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2EF260ED; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:49:58 -0600 (CST) Received: from 64.1.99.131 (SquirrelMail authenticated user noackjr) by www.noacks.org with HTTP; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:49:58 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <13688.64.1.99.131.1073951398.squirrel@www.noacks.org> In-Reply-To: <20040112113040.GC19402@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <20040112113040.GC19402@genius.tao.org.uk> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:49:58 -0600 (CST) From: "Jon Noack" To: "Josef Karthauser" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at noacks.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with syslogd under 5.2-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: noackjr@compgeek.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:51:43 -0000 Josef Karthauser wrote: > I upgraded a server to 5.2-RELEASE last weekend and since then I've had > no end of trouble with the postfix mail server. Mail hangs in the queu= e > with errors like: > > 81D5A90020 15421 Mon Jan 12 10:42:23 email@address > (temporary failure. Command output: couldn't connect to lmtpd: Unkn= own > error: 0_ 421 4.3.0 deliver: couldn't connect to lmtpd_ ) > > It appears that the lmtpd is hanging on syslog output... nothing is > getting written to syslog at all. > > If I kill and restart syslogd by hand I get: > > # /usr/sbin/syslogd -s > syslogd: timed out waiting for child > > Is this a known problem? Is there a workaround? > > Joe If you've already tried recompiling Postfix, you may ignore this message. This may be related to the statfs update back in November. There's a not= e in src/UPDATING about it on 20031112. A search of the archives revealed this thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-November/thread.h= tml#13828 With this message telling you to recompile Postfix: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-November/013929.h= tml Jon