[CentOS] Postfix dying
Paul Norton
paul at neoverve.com
Mon Nov 12 19:34:26 UTC 2007
Joshua Gimer wrote:
> > Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly. This system is
> running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2.
>
> What does the IO wait look like on the system? Is this system under high
> load?
Only late at night when back up scripts are running. At this time
though is when I start seeing the error from postfix.
> You might want to check to make sure that syslog is not calling sync
> every time that it writes to file.
>
> /etc/syslog.conf
>
> Should be a "-' in front of /var/log/messages
Thanks. I have set this to -/var/log/messages now.
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