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=============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ =============================================================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 13:00:05 -0600 (MDT) From: Greg Woods <address@hidden> To: address@hidden Subject: FL mail troubles Another after effect of fl-phx:/local filling up appears to have been that the sendmail aliases database got trashed. There are already scripts that rebuild it periodically, but it got corrupted in a strange way so that the rebuild also failed. I had to completely delete it, then rebuild it to recover. This would have resulted in some mail bouncing headed for address@hidden addresses with a "user unknown" error. The problem has been fixed. I also created a symlink from "core" to /dev/null in the directory where named runs, so that another core dump will not cause all of this to happen again. Monitoring scripts have been installed on fl-phx and bubby to restart named if it crashes again. There has already been one crash this afternoon on fl-phx (which would not have caused any noticeable outage because named was automatically restarted almost immediately), so whatever is causing these crashes is still going on. I have started monitoring all packets to the DNS port on fl-phx in hopes that a crash will happen while I am watching, so I can figure out what is causing it. --Greg