Hello list, Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly. This system is running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2. In the morning (after noticing it died) I try to run `service postfix stop` and I get a failed start. Running `ps ax | grep postfix` I can see one process still running for postfix. After killing this, I am able to run `service postfix start`. I see a lot of this in my maillog: Nov 7 00:25:13 servername postfix/smtpd[16727]: lost connection after CONNECT from unknown[201.251.x.x] Nov 7 00:25:13 servername postfix/smtpd[16715]: disconnect from unknown[201.251.x.x] Nov 7 00:25:13 servername postfix/smtpd[16727]: disconnect from unknown[201.251.x.x] Nov 7 00:25:13 servername postfix/smtpd[16723]: warning: connect to private/anvil: Resource temporarily unavailable Nov 7 00:25:13 servername postfix/smtpd[16723]: warning: problem talking to server private/anvil: Resource temporarily unavailable Nov 7 00:25:13 servername postfix/smtpd[16723]: lost connection after CONNECT from unknown[201.251.x.x] Nov 7 00:25:13 servername postfix/smtpd[16723]: disconnect from unknown[201.251.x.x] Nov 7 00:27:22 servername postfix/smtpd[16184]: warning: timeout on private/anvil while reading input attribute name Nov 7 00:27:22 servername postfix/smtpd[16184]: warning: problem talking to server private/anvil: Connection timed out Nov 7 00:27:22 servername postfix/smtpd[16910]: warning: timeout on private/anvil while reading input attribute name Nov 7 00:27:22 servername postfix/smtpd[16910]: warning: problem talking to server private/anvil: Connection timed out Nov 7 00:27:22 servername postfix/smtpd[16726]: warning: timeout on private/anvil while reading input attribute name Nov 7 00:27:22 servername postfix/smtpd[16726]: warning: problem talking to server private/anvil: Connection timed out Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16184]: warning: connect to private/anvil: Resource temporarily unavailable Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16184]: warning: problem talking to server private/anvil: Resource temporarily unavailable Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16184]: lost connection after CONNECT from unknown[201.251.x.x] Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16184]: disconnect from unknown[201.251.x.x] Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16910]: warning: connect to private/anvil: Resource temporarily unavailable Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16910]: warning: problem talking to server private/anvil: Resource temporarily unavailable Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16910]: lost connection after CONNECT from unknown[86.123.x.x] Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16910]: disconnect from unknown[86.123.x.x] Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16726]: warning: connect to private/anvil: Resource temporarily unavailable Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16726]: warning: problem talking to server private/anvil: Resource temporarily unavailable Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16726]: lost connection after CONNECT from cpe-024-x-x-x.carolina.x.x.com[24.74.x.x] Nov 7 00:27:23 servername postfix/smtpd[16726]: disconnect from cpe-024-074-x-x.carolina.x.x.com[24.74.x.x] TIA for any suggestions. -- Paul Norton Systems Administrator Neoverve - www.neoverve.com Neoverve Blog - http://blog.neoverve.com/
Paul Norton wrote:> Hello list, > > Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly. This system is > running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2. > > In the morning (after noticing it died) I try to run `service postfix > stop` and I get a failed start. Running `ps ax | grep postfix` I can > see one process still running for postfix. After killing this, I am > able to run `service postfix start`.Anything in audit.log ? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/
Paul Norton wrote:> Hello list, > > Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly. This system is > running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2. > > In the morning (after noticing it died) I try to run `service postfix > stop` and I get a failed start. Running `ps ax | grep postfix` I can > see one process still running for postfix. After killing this, I am > able to run `service postfix start`.Which process is it? smtpd? master?> > I see a lot of this in my maillog:> Nov 7 00:25:13 servername postfix/smtpd[16723]: warning: connect to > private/anvil: Resource temporarily unavailable > Nov 7 00:25:13 servername postfix/smtpd[16723]: warning: problem > talking to server private/anvil: Resource temporarily unavailable > > TIA for any suggestions. >I cannot work out when postfix 2.3.3 was released...there was a bugfix related to anvil in Dec 2005 and I am using 2.3.5 without this particular problem. Speaking of which, it is time for me to upgrade to 2.3.13 or the latest 2.4.x . You might want to turn on debugging to find out what is going on with anvil.
Paul Norton said the following on 11/07/2007 10:57 AM:> Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly. This system is > running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2.I have had a similar problem, but Postfix continues to operate. I am running CentOS 5.0 with all updates as a virtual machine inside the free VMWare server on a CentOS 5.0 machine. [root at srv log]# egrep "signal|startup" maillog Nov 4 12:56:21 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/anvil pid 23893 killed by signal 11 Nov 4 12:56:21 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/anvil: bad command startup -- throttling Nov 7 11:20:02 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp pid 24327 killed by signal 11 Nov 7 11:20:02 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling Nov 9 07:02:49 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/pipe pid 13133 killed by signal 11 Nov 9 07:02:49 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/pipe: bad command startup -- throttling [root at srv log]# rpm -qa | grep postfix postfix-2.3.3-2.el5.centos.mysql_pgsql postfix-pflogsumm-2.3.3-2.el5.centos.mysql_pgsql [root at srv log]# rpm -qa | grep -i vmware VMwareTools-6532-56528 -- Sincerely, John Thomas