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; [[Postfix]] : Mail transfer agent that routes and delivers e-mail
 
; [[Postfix]] : Mail transfer agent that routes and delivers e-mail
 
; [[SpamAssassin]] : Filters out junk mail sent through it by postfix
 
; [[SpamAssassin]] : Filters out junk mail sent through it by postfix
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== The "spreading" account problems ==
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For quite some time now, Sarah's had long delays on any actions her account tries, including login, simple things like ls, and basically everything but cd. Karl has had an issue where he is instantly booted, where all logs are showing successful logins. The problem spread to Dan for a few days and stopped affecting him. It recently spread to Sam, and now Kyle. It's not an issue of the most recent users, because Pari and Jishnu would have it. I haven't been able to see anything in the logs anywhere showing anything. Quite frustrating.

Revision as of 20:14, 14 October 2008

einstein LDAP crash
Einstein said that service ldap was running, however, nothing could reach the server, not even local ldapsearches. It turns out that the Berkley database was corrupted due to a bad shutdown earlier in the day.

Mail Chain Dependencies

When updating any one of these, it is important to shut down all of them beforehand. More

amavis-new
A Mail Virus Scanner, scans mail sent to it by postfix
ClamAV
Anti-virus programs used by amavis
Postfix
Mail transfer agent that routes and delivers e-mail
SpamAssassin
Filters out junk mail sent through it by postfix

The "spreading" account problems

For quite some time now, Sarah's had long delays on any actions her account tries, including login, simple things like ls, and basically everything but cd. Karl has had an issue where he is instantly booted, where all logs are showing successful logins. The problem spread to Dan for a few days and stopped affecting him. It recently spread to Sam, and now Kyle. It's not an issue of the most recent users, because Pari and Jishnu would have it. I haven't been able to see anything in the logs anywhere showing anything. Quite frustrating.