Topic: Cron Daemon: Can't open /var/log/qpsmtpd/*.s No such file or

[TeNeCo]

I get the following mail every night; what can I do?

Can't open /var/log/qpsmtpd/*.s: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/spamfilter-stats-7.pl line 216.

[byte]

Moving this topic to the SME 7.x contribs forum, it is more appropriate there. Thanks!

[TeNeCo]

Have you filled in a Bug Report over @ http://bugs.contribs.org/ ? Please don't wait to be told this way you help us to help you/others - Thanks!

No, cause first I assume a human failure during my installation.

[kruhm]

do you have any *.s files at /var/log/qpsmtpd ?

looks like it's the spamfilter-stats-7.pl that's giving a problem. I would start by asking the contrib author. Since this isn't an official script or contrib from the core team there's no reason to fill a bug report.

[TeNeCo]

do you have any *.s files at /var/log/qpsmtpd ?

when I change to that dir and type a ls there I get the following result:

current  lock  state

[william_syd]

Since this isn't an official script or contrib from the core team there's no reason to fill a bug report.

There are areas in the bug tracker for contribs from all contrib authors. If it don't exist it can be created.

[william_syd]

do you have any *.s files at /var/log/qpsmtpd ?

when I change to that dir and type a ls there I get the following result:

current  lock  state

I get...

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[root@tiger qpsmtpd]# ls
@4000000045ef1d8c0680b9ec.s  @4000000045f225e03b0e280c.s  @4000000045f5565b208bd72c.s  @4000000045f810661b698a3c.s  @4000000045fb11862210b9dc.s  lock
@4000000045f0cee60d4d8674.s  @4000000045f3958b18068d04.s  @4000000045f6c1142a7da1d4.s  @4000000045f9ae052e1d3e94.s  current                      state
[root@tiger qpsmtpd]#


Do you see any qpsmtpd logs via server-manager ?

[TeNeCo]

Do you see any qpsmtpd logs via server-manager ?

yes: qpsmtpd/current it's quite long.

[TeNeCo]

do you have any *.s files at /var/log/qpsmtpd ?

when I change to that dir and type a ls there I get the following result:

@4000000046045c231fb1366c.s  current  lock  state

It's also visible in the server-manager.

[TeNeCo]

do you have any *.s files at /var/log/qpsmtpd ?

on the mashine where it still doesn't work I get the following output:

@4000000045e1b23415e0ab7c.u  @4000000045ffa69733b0335c.u  current  state
@4000000045f1781d3125813c.u  @4000000046055ecc2f296ed4.u  lock

[mmccarn]

Each old log file has a name beginning with @, continuing with a precise timestamp showing when the file was finished, and ending with one of the following codes:

    * .s: This file is completely processed and safely written to disk.
    * .u: This file was being created at the moment of an outage. It may have been truncated. It has not been processed.

If you are only getting ".u" files then your system is never staying "up" long enough for qpsmtpd to gracefully rotate the log files.  

I had a similar problem at one point and "fixed" it by modifying /etc/cron.d/mailstats.cron to scan "/var/log/qpsmtpd/*.* /var/log/qpsmtpd/current" instead of "/var/log/qpsmtpd/*.s /var/log/qpsmtpd/current".

You could eliminate your error message by running touch /var/log/qpsmtpd/@filler.s but you won't get valid reports if your logs all end in ".u".

Ultimately, mailstats needs to:

- Include the ".u" logfiles when generating stats, as these files *can* contain relevant information
- gracefully handle the case where a specified input file is missing

These problems may have been addressed in the upcoming release of mailstats that uses "logterse"...

Here's a post from bugzilla suggesting "@*" instead of "*.*": http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524#c4

[TeNeCo]

If you are only getting ".u" files then your system is never staying "up" long enough for qpsmtpd to gracefully rotate the log files.

What do you mean with "not long enough"? The server is running 24hours a day.
Now things became worse: yesterday I tried to install the spamfilter again. As a result I got the two Cron job mails twice at midnight. (the one with the error and the "SPAM filter statistic"). How can I stop one of them again? Now I have a spamfilter-stats-7.pl and a spamfilter-stats-7.pl.1 in /usr/var/

[compdoc]

takes a while to get enough finished log files in /var/log/qpsmtpd for that error to go away, especially if you dont get a lot of mail.

The 'current' file grows to 5 megs in size before the system closes it and gives it a name ending with .s

Then it creates a new current file.

Just ignore the error and keep the server up. The server isnt rebooting or crashing, is it?

you could change mailstats, but watch for errors.

[compdoc]

Delete spamfilter-stats-7.pl.1, as its not being used.

And make sure spamfilter-stats-7.pl is the current version, and that you install logterse.

Also make sure there is not more than one mailstats.cron file, and that the permissions for it are not higher than 644.

[TeNeCo]

Delete spamfilter-stats-7.pl.1, as its not being used.

And make sure spamfilter-stats-7.pl is the current version, and that you install logterse.

Also make sure there is not more than one mailstats.cron file, and that the permissions for it are not higher than 644.

OK, I deleted spamfilter-stats-7.pl.1 and mailstats.cron.1. But what is logterse? Where can I find more informations?