On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 14:30 +0200, John wrote: > Hello all, > > We just encountered several serious Out of Memory Problems caused by the > file 4.17-9.0.1.EL5 utility on our mail Gateway. CentOS 5.1 kept it self > alive by killing it parent process Amavisd-new. Manually restarting > Amavisd-new and flushing the mail queue caused same problem. Disabling file > for the moment, caused Amavisd-new to fail, and also defer all mail. > > My quick and dirty solution was the download the Fedora Core 9's > file.4.23-5.src.rpm. and rebuild it on CentOS 5 After upgrading file, > restarting Amavisd-new and flushing the Postfix queue, all mail was > delivered without problems. > > Because our mail system went down, it didn't have the time to trace the > message causing the problem. > > But I want to share here that the Redhat / CentOS EL5 file utility has > problems and provide a quick workaround for the problem. Can't find a bug report on this for either CentOS-5 or upstream. Phil