[CentOS] Postfix dying

Mon Nov 12 02:24:26 UTC 2007
Christopher Chan <christopher at ias.com.hk>

John Thomas wrote:
> Paul Norton said the following on 11/07/2007 10:57 AM:
>> Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly.  This system is 
>> running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2.
> 
> I have had a similar problem, but Postfix continues to operate.  I am 
> running CentOS 5.0 with all updates as a virtual machine inside the free 
> VMWare server on a CentOS 5.0 machine.
> 
> [root at srv log]# egrep "signal|startup" maillog
> Nov  4 12:56:21 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: process 
> /usr/libexec/postfix/anvil pid 23893 killed by signal 11
> Nov  4 12:56:21 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: 
> /usr/libexec/postfix/anvil: bad command startup -- throttling
> Nov  7 11:20:02 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: process 
> /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp pid 24327 killed by signal 11
> Nov  7 11:20:02 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: 
> /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling
> Nov  9 07:02:49 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: process 
> /usr/libexec/postfix/pipe pid 13133 killed by signal 11
> Nov  9 07:02:49 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: 
> /usr/libexec/postfix/pipe: bad command startup -- throttling

Xen on Centos 5.0 is flaky.