[nos-bbs] Message log jam

[Michael E Fox - N6MEF]

I should add that I do NOT allow JNOS SMTP to talk to anything other than
other JNOS machines.  So the mqueue situation I had in January is NOT
associated with Internet SPAM.  When I examined the messages in the mqueue,
they all appeared to be addressed to our other JNOS machines.  But it was a
spot check.  So I can't say for certain.

 

Michael

 

 

From: Michael E Fox - N6MEF [mailto:n6mef at mefox.org] 
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 7:31 AM
To: 'TAPR xNOS Mailing List'
Subject: RE: [nos-bbs] Message log jam

 

My mqueue directory was backed up in January.  First time (that I'm aware of
in over 4 years on 6 machines.

 

I wrote a simple script that monitors the mqueue directory for files older
than 2x the smtp timer in JNOS. If it finds any, it sends me an email with
the number of files and the sequence number.  It runs once an hour.  If I
get more than one email, the sequence number will tell me if things are at
least moving slowly or stopped.

 

The next step would be to have the script execute "smtp kick" to try to get
things going again, or else restart JNOS.  Right now, the script doesn't do
that because I'd like to try to figure out what causes a stuck situation (if
it ever happens again).

 

So far, it hasn't happened again.

 

Michael

N6MEF

 

From: nos-bbs-bounces at tapr.org <mailto:nos-bbs-bounces at tapr.org>
[mailto:nos-bbs-bounces at tapr.org] On Behalf Of Wm Lewis
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 12:30 AM
To: TAPR xNOS Mailing List
Subject: [nos-bbs] Message log jam

 

I too have noted within the last week that my JNOS is starting to log jam
all my incoming messages in the /jnos/spool/mqueue directory.
 
I can delete all messages and restart the system. Then all seems ok for only
a day, and they start jamming again.
 
I looked through the manual but did not see any documented commands to get
things flowing again and did not see anything on how to get the jammed
messages to process correctly rather than deleting them.
 
Anyone got some ideas ?
 
Wm Lewis
KG6BAJ
 

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