[ale] Sendmail and Bellsouth

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Mon Feb 20 11:01:17 EST 2006


On 2/20/06, Paul Cartwright <paul_tbot at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Mon February 20 2006 7:17 am, Thomas Stromberg wrote:
> > Should that fail (!?!), you can try "/etc/init.d/postfix reload", or
> > using stop/start instead.
>
> ok, I ran that command, and every time I do that command, it adds a
> line in /var/log/mail.err:
>
> Feb 20 14:06:11 PaulsPC postfix/postqueue[16167]: fatal: Cannot flush
> mail queue - mail system is down
> PaulsPC:/etc/postfix #
>
> which is weird, because date shows:
> # date
> Mon Feb 20 09:08:07 EST 2006

GMT, maybe?

>
> and
>
> pbc at PaulsPC:/var/mail> l /var/spool/mail
> total 0
> drwxrwxrwt   2 root  root  96 2006-02-20 06:07 ./
> drwxr-xr-x  18 root  root 464 2006-02-12 09:10 ../
> -rwxrwxrwx   1 pbc    109   0 2006-02-20 06:07 pbc*
>
> var/mail> l pbc
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 pbc 109 0 2006-02-20 06:07 pbc*
>
>
>
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> Paul Cartwright
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