Postgrey stops every night

[Jengle]

Does anyone know if there is a fix for Postgrey stopping every night? I have a work around using Monit to restart it, but it is annoying that it stops at least 3 or 4 times every night. Anyone have any suggestions?

[HermanAB]

It should not ever stop, unless something removes the mail log file. Check your cron tasks. Maybe logrotate renames the maillog?

Cheers,

Herman

[ubnuturero]

Take a look at

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/+source/db4.4/+bug/153996

Leonel

[MJN]

Does the mail log give any clue as to why it's stopping?

Mathew

[Jengle]

This is what I see in the mail log:

Dec 17 02:21:34 Ubuntu-1 postgrey[9671]: cleaning up old logs...
Dec 17 02:21:34 Ubuntu-1 postgrey[9671]: cleaning up old entries...
Dec 17 02:21:35 Ubuntu-1 postgrey[9671]: cleaning main database finished. before: 5764, after: 540
Dec 17 02:21:35 Ubuntu-1 postgrey[9671]: fatal: Can't call method "txn_commit" on an undefined value at /usr/sbin/postgrey

[MJN]

That confirms it's the bug referenced by Leonel - so keep an eye on it.

Mathew

[Jengle]

Thanks for confirming that. I looked at the link Leonel sent. I must admit some of it lost me. It doesn't look like there is a fix at this time.

Right now Monit restarts the service for me, but would be nice to have a cure.:confused:

Thanks,

[HermanAB]

Consider downgrading to a previous version of postgrey, till there is a fix for the latest version.

Cheers,

H.