Topic: qmail issues after power failures

[robw]

Hi, over the past few days we have had several power failures and this left qmail not working. I will detail all errors in order to give a full picture.

The first error in the qmail/current.log was:

unable to opendir info/20, sleeping...

After making sure fsck had run successfully and confirming it was not there, I recreated the /var/qmail/queue/info/20 directory and applied the same permissions the rest of these directories under info had (700).

The next issue was:

unable to opendir mess/11

Again after confirming it was not there, I recreated the /var/qmail/queue/mess/11 directory and applied the same permissions the rest of these directories under mess had (750).

I now have the following warnings coming up frequently and I don't have a clue what to do about them:

warning: unable to unlink info/21/xxxxxxxx

I fear that I may have done the first directory incorrectly as I used SSH Secure File Transfer to copy and paste info/21 before renaming it to info/20. I'm unsure how to check the real status of the file system and I don't know how qmail works to be ableto find which process I may have interrupted or how to fix it.

Can anyone please help. Thanks in advance,

Rob

[matsk]

First a litle hint: By using the search enginee google.com I found the answer to your question. I used the words "repair qmail", try it the next time you have some problems  


There is a "queue repair tool" at http://www.qcc.ca/%7Echarlesc/software/queue_repair/ that could be the problem solver.

/Mats

[Anonymous]

Mats,

thanks heaps for that. I did (and do always) search Google but didn't try that combo of key words (I know it is obvious but hindsight is 20/20)

I will run this utility as soon as I can.

Thanks again,

Rob

[matsk]

No problem, just happy if I could help and in swedish we have a way of speaking:
The first thing you get blind on is the eyes  

/Mats