Michael, Thanks for the pointers. No luck understanding yet. I'm thinking some sort of file system problem. Answers to your questions below. Mark POP3: I get no answer on port 110. Windows telnet tells me connect failed: Host:192.168.10.42 SMTP: I do get an ESMTP answer on port 25. 220 vivaldi.controlnet.com ESMTP Postfix on SuSE eMail Server 2.0 HTTP: It is running because I can call up your GUI's, log in as administrator and bounce around in the editing system, until I try and edit user data, or add a new user, then I see problems. It seems to connect (192.168.10.42 in telnet banner) but stays white screen. I type in your command and see no response to the telnet window. I see this in /var/log/httpd/access_log 192.168.10.181 - - [01/Jun/2001:09:57:42 -0700] "GET /index.html HTTP\1.1" 200 309 After a minute or two the telnet connection is lost. When I logged in and either tried to edit user data or log in as a user this morning, I got failures in the GUI. /var/log/httpd/error_log shows the following happened: [Fri Jun 1 06:56:34 2001] edit_user4admin.pl: can't connect to vivaldi.controlnet.com: Bad file descriptor [Fri Jun 1 06:57:03 2001] edit_user4admin.pl: can't connect to vivaldi.controlnet.com: Bad file descriptor [Fri Jun 1 07:03:58 2001] edit_user4admin.pl: can't connect to vivaldi.controlnet.com: Bad file descriptor Here's what's running on the system right now. I have rebooted a couple of times with no changes in results so far... vivaldi:/var/log/httpd # ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.0 344 200 ? S 06:53 0:05 init [3] root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 06:53 0:00 [kflushd] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 06:53 0:00 [kupdate] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 06:53 0:00 [kpiod] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 06:53 0:00 [kswapd] root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 06:53 0:00 [md_thread] root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 06:53 0:00 [khubd] bin 147 0.0 0.1 1064 408 ? S 06:54 0:00 /sbin/portmap root 165 0.0 0.2 1104 568 ? S 06:54 0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd root 169 0.0 0.3 1456 864 ? S 06:54 0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd -c 1 named 199 0.0 0.8 2932 2100 ? S 06:54 0:00 /usr/sbin/named -u named -g named root 217 0.0 0.7 2884 1900 ? S 06:54 0:00 /usr/lib/openldap/slapd root 225 0.0 0.7 2884 1900 ? S 06:54 0:00 /usr/lib/openldap/slapd root 226 0.0 0.7 2884 1900 ? S 06:54 0:00 /usr/lib/openldap/slapd root 233 0.0 0.2 1448 712 ? S 06:54 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.dracd -i -e 5 /etc/postfix/dracd.db root 266 0.0 2.0 42892 5252 ? S 06:54 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf -D PHP4 -D SSL at 269 0.0 0.1 1072 504 ? S 06:54 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd wwwrun 297 0.0 2.7 44444 7296 ? S 06:54 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf -D PHP4 -D SSL root 413 0.0 0.3 1908 824 ? S 06:54 0:00 /usr/lib/postfix/master postfix 418 0.0 0.4 4764 1196 ? S 06:54 0:00 qmgr -l -t unix -u -c postfix 419 0.0 0.3 2676 1020 ? S 06:54 0:00 tlsmgr -l -t fifo -u wwwrun 453 0.0 0.2 1088 536 ? S 06:54 0:00 /usr/bin/sessiond root 461 0.0 0.5 2152 1352 ? S 06:54 0:00 /usr/sbin/snmpd -f root 470 0.0 0.3 1876 844 ? S 06:54 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd root 485 0.0 0.2 1420 756 ? S 06:54 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron root 506 0.0 0.1 1060 504 tty1 S 06:54 0:00 /sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1 root 507 0.0 0.1 1060 504 tty2 S 06:54 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2 root 508 0.0 0.1 1060 504 tty3 S 06:54 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3 root 509 0.0 0.1 1060 504 tty4 S 06:54 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4 root 510 0.0 0.1 1060 504 tty5 S 06:54 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5 root 511 0.0 0.1 1060 504 tty6 S 06:54 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6 root 512 0.0 0.8 5856 2292 ? S 06:54 0:00 /opt/kde/bin/kdm root 514 0.0 1.6 14180 4436 ? S 06:54 0:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt07 -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-H90 root 516 0.0 1.5 6644 4064 ? S 06:54 0:00 -:0 root 531 0.0 0.6 3080 1728 ? S 06:54 0:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole -notify -nostdin -verbose -exitOnFail wwwrun 561 0.0 3.0 45068 8064 ? S 06:55 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf -D PHP4 -D SSL postfix 958 0.0 0.3 1956 800 ? S 08:34 0:00 pickup -l -t unix -c root 1045 0.0 0.6 2724 1720 ? S 09:31 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd cyrus 1046 0.0 0.5 2520 1516 pts/0 S 09:31 0:00 -bash root 1057 0.0 0.4 1980 1200 pts/0 S 09:31 0:00 su - root 1060 0.0 0.5 2540 1552 pts/0 S 09:32 0:00 -bash root 1111 0.0 0.6 2724 1720 ? S 09:44 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd cyrus 1112 0.0 0.5 2520 1516 pts/1 S 09:44 0:00 -bash root 1123 0.0 0.4 1980 1200 pts/1 S 09:44 0:00 su - root 1126 0.0 0.5 2540 1548 pts/1 S 09:44 0:00 -bash root 1161 0.0 0.4 2244 1256 pts/0 S 09:47 0:00 vi messages root 1206 0.0 0.3 2504 964 pts/1 R 10:09 0:00 ps aux vivaldi:/var/log/httpd #
From approximately the same time frame as this morning's tests here's /var/log/mail
Jun 1 06:48:28 vivaldi postfix/smtpd[2638]: disconnect from
unknown[204.114.68.8]
Jun 1 06:51:39 vivaldi postfix/smtpd[2821]: connect from
unknown[204.114.68.8]
Jun 1 06:51:39 vivaldi postfix/smtpd[2821]: 26AF73EF7A:
client=unknown[204.114.68.8]
Jun 1 06:51:40 vivaldi postfix/cleanup[2824]: 26AF73EF7A:
message-id=<3B179DDE.E10DAE5@acm.org>
Jun 1 06:51:40 vivaldi postfix/qmgr[418]: 26AF73EF7A:
from= Jun 1 06:56:56 vivaldi postfix/qmgr[418]: 0A6223EF7A:
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