Re: Problems with syslogd under 5.2-RELEASE

From: Jon Noack <noackjr_at_compgeek.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:42:59 -0600
On 1/12/2004 5:49 PM, Jon Noack wrote:
> 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 queue
>>with errors like:
>>
>>    81D5A90020    15421 Mon Jan 12 10:42:23  email_at_address
>>    (temporary failure. Command output: couldn't connect to lmtpd: Unknown
>>    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 note
> 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.html#13828
> 
> With this message telling you to recompile Postfix:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-November/013929.html
> 
> Jon

Better yet, check the release notes:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2R/relnotes-i386.html#FS

Jon
Received on Mon Jan 12 2004 - 23:42:20 UTC

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