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died because of too many open files

2008-11-08 by Petar Bogdanovic

Hi,

a few hours ago milter-greylist died on one of our servers:

	milter-greylist: spamd socket failed: Too many open files
	milter-greylist: ACL evaluation failure
	milter-greylist: mkstemp("/var/milter/mgrey.db-000098ss") failed: Too many open files

I raised the limits but I'd still like to know if milter-greylist is
really supposed to die in such a case?


Also, I saw this after starting milter-greylist again:

	milter-greylist: unknown token ":" line 19202, skipping 
	milter-greylist: dump error at line 19202: syntax error 
	milter-greylist: unknown token "@" line 24283, skipping 
	milter-greylist: dump error at line 24283: syntax error 
	milter-greylist: unknown token "@" line 89828, skipping 
	milter-greylist: dump error at line 89828: syntax error 
	milter-greylist: unknown token ":" line 110011, skipping 
	milter-greylist: dump error at line 110011: syntax error 
	milter-greylist: unknown token "@" line 110011, skipping 
	milter-greylist: unknown token "@" line 208033, skipping 
	milter-greylist: dump error at line 208033: syntax error 

The problem were some sender-addresses like `ab@cd@...'.


Any ideas?


Thanks,

Petar

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