Re: cryptic error messages

From: Wietse Venema (no email)
Date: Thu Feb 01 2007 - 12:48:13 EST

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    Rich Morin:
    > I've been getting occasional error messages of the form:
    >
    > ERR: Feb 1 08:29:58 mini postfix/smtpd[18633]:
    > connect from g3po[192.168.1.211]

    That is NOT an error.

    What you see is software that MIS-LABELS a perfectly normal
    Postfix activity record as an error.

    > By way of background, "g3po" is our front-end mail server
    > (B&W Power Mac G3; Mac OS X 10.4.8) and 192.168.1.211 is
    > the correct IP address for it. It handles all incoming
    > mail, passing email with valid recipients on to "mini".
    >
    > I've looked at mini's mail.log file and can't see any
    > error messages that correspond to these emailed error
    > messages. Can anyone tell me what kinds of problems
    > might generate this type of message?
    >
    >
    > On a possibly related note, g3po had an elevated load
    > average and was acting rather bogged down. Although
    > top(1) didn't show lookupd as the culprit, I decided
    > to do a prophylactic "killall -HUP lookupd". This
    > seems to have resolved the load average problem.
    >
    > I'd really like to know what postfix is doing that is
    > causing lookupd to become a resource drain. Given that
    > we have hard-code our recipient lists in the postfix
    > configuration files, I can't understand what it should
    > need to look up...

    I wrote Postfix, and I know that lookupd is not part of Postfix.

            Wietse


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