[Mimedefang] Followup on Work directory names

[Joseph Brennan]

David Skoll wrote,
>>> /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-3E8312A7-0: File exists
>>
>> You should never see anything ending in -0 complaining, because
>> mimedefang.c tries up to MAXTRIES times to make a directory, and MAXTRIES
>> is 8192. If you are seeing this, it's because your system is not
>> returning EEXIST or EBADF when the mkdir() fails.
>
> Solaris 2.8.  I'm passing this to our systems folks.  Interesting.

Closer analysis of the logs shows that just before those errors,
we were getting socket errors.  Section of 'grep mimedefang systog'
follows.  This was the minute when the host had 412 incoming messages.
Mimedefang 2.31 with MX_MAXIMUM=100.

Mar 27 10:01:26 marionberry mimedefang[16960]: [ID 149102 mail.error] 
MXCommand:
 socket: Too many open files
Mar 27 10:01:26 marionberry mimedefang[16960]: [ID 758488 mail.warning] 
mfconnec
t: Error communicating with multiplexor
Mar 27 10:01:26 marionberry mimedefang[16960]: [ID 149102 mail.error] 
MXCommand:
 socket: Too many open files
Mar 27 10:01:26 marionberry mimedefang[16960]: [ID 758488 mail.warning] 
mfconnec
t: Error communicating with multiplexor
Mar 27 10:01:26 marionberry mimedefang[16960]: [ID 149102 mail.error] 
MXCommand:
 socket: Too many open files
Mar 27 10:01:26 marionberry mimedefang[16960]: [ID 934268 mail.warning] 
opendir(
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-3E831245-0) failed: Too many open files
Mar 27 10:01:26 marionberry mimedefang[16960]: [ID 758488 mail.warning] 
mfconnec
t: Error communicating with multiplexor
Mar 27 10:01:26 marionberry mimedefang[16960]: [ID 647941 mail.error] 
h2RF16fu02
5549: Failure in cleanup line 1416: Too many open files
Mar 27 10:01:26 marionberry mimedefang[16960]: [ID 149102 mail.error] 
MXCommand:
 socket: Too many open files
Mar 27 10:01:26 marionberry mimedefang[16960]: [ID 758488 mail.warning] 
mfconnec
t: Error communicating with multiplexor
Mar 27 10:01:26 marionberry mimedefang[16960]: [ID 149102 mail.error] 
MXCommand:
 socket: Too many open files
Mar 27 10:01:26 marionberry mimedefang[16960]: [ID 838820 mail.warning] 
h2RF0ofv
025294: Could not create /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-3E831241-1/INPUTMSG: 
Too
many open files
Mar 27 10:01:26 marionberry mimedefang[16960]: [ID 149102 mail.error] 
MXCommand:
 socket: Too many open files
Mar 27 10:01:26 marionberry mimedefang[16960]: [ID 758488 mail.warning] 
mfconnec
t: Error communicating with multiplexor
Mar 27 10:01:26 marionberry mimedefang[16960]: [ID 149102 mail.error] 
MXCommand:
 socket: Too many open files
Mar 27 10:01:26 marionberry mimedefang[16960]: [ID 758488 mail.warning] 
mfconnec
t: Error communicating with multiplexor
Mar 27 10:01:26 marionberry mimedefang[16960]: [ID 149102 mail.error] 
MXCommand:
 socket: Too many open files
Mar 27 10:01:26 marionberry mimedefang[16960]: [ID 758488 mail.warning] 
mfconnec
t: Error communicating with multiplexor
Mar 27 10:01:26 marionberry mimedefang[16960]: [ID 702342 mail.warning] 
h2RF1Efu
025654: Could not create directory 
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-3E831246-0:
File exists


I've taken 2.32BETA and will try that.


Joseph Brennan          Columbia University in the City of New York
postmaster at columbia.edu                 Academic Technologies Group