[nos-bbs] Message log jam

[Wm Lewis]

Tried SMTP KICK (Nothing happened)
Removed any 'lck' files, and re'kicked' (nothing happened)
Removed all files except the sequence file, (in /jnos/spool/mqueue) then waited. New messages instantly jam again.
Rebooted. No change, instant jam.
 

Only thing that seems to get them going again is if I delete all files in /jnos/spool/mqueue   *and*   all files in /jnos/spool/mail

 

Of course deleting the later files mean deleting every last message on my system. Not really the course of action I'm looking for.

 

So, as of now, they are still back-logging in the /jnos/spool/mqueue directory waiting for some unknown force to kick in.

 

:)

 

Bill


 




From: n6mef at mefox.org
To: nos-bbs at tapr.org
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:36:28 -0700
Subject: Re: [nos-bbs] Message log jam





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] 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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