readf errors in mail console
mailnotmything
sendmail to receive and send responses. The program creates a qf and
df file and puts them in /var/spool/mqueue. It was running sendmail
from 2001 and has worked fine until this upgrade. The new server is
using sendmail v8.13. I get the following error messages in the mail
console log: readqf: no control file ./qfXXXXXX Permission denied or
readqf: ./dfXXXXXX incomplete queue file read. Does sendmail still
use the df and qf files? How does sendmail use them now vs. 2001
version?
Andrzej Adam Filip
> I'm upgrading the server that a in-house program runs on. It uses
> sendmail to receive and send responses. The program creates a qf and
> df file and puts them in /var/spool/mqueue. It was running sendmail
> from 2001 and has worked fine until this upgrade. The new server is
> using sendmail v8.13. I get the following error messages in the mail
> console log: readqf: no control file ./qfXXXXXX Permission denied or
> readqf: ./dfXXXXXX incomplete queue file read.
Could post what is reported by "mailq -v" command (issued by root)?
[ show queues content ]
> Does sendmail still use the df and qf files?
Yes.
> How does sendmail use them now vs. 2001 version?
My wild guess: Upgrade through MANY intermediate versions could make
sendmail complain about "old trash" in the queue file.
Could you check age of files in /var/spool/mqueue?
Sendmail should "deliver or bounce" messages after 5 days (in default
configuration). Do you have files in queue directory older than 7 days?
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mailnotmything
> mailnotmything <aeas...@shawneecourt.org> wrote:
> > I'm upgrading the server that a in-house program runs on. It uses
> > sendmail to receive and send responses. The program creates a qf and
> > df file and puts them in /var/spool/mqueue. It was running sendmail
> > from 2001 and has worked fine until this upgrade. The new server is
> > using sendmail v8.13. I get the following error messages in the mail
> > console log: readqf: no control file ./qfXXXXXX Permission denied or
> > readqf: ./dfXXXXXX incomplete queue file read.
>
> Could post what is reported by "mailq -v" command (issued by root)?
> [ show queues content ]
>
> > Does sendmail still use the df and qf files?
>
> Yes.
>
> > How does sendmail use them now vs. 2001 version?
>
> My wild guess: Upgrade through MANY intermediate versions could make
> sendmail complain about "old trash" in the queue file.
>
> Could you check age of files in /var/spool/mqueue?
> Sendmail should "deliver or bounce" messages after 5 days (in default
> configuration). Do you have files in queue directory older than 7 days?
>
> --
> "I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of
> people waiting to abuse me."
> -- Bill Murray, "Ghostbusters"
The files were created today, so none are older than 7 days.
The output from mailq -v is below:
MAA15213 6309 30964 Aug 25 09:52
<add...@efile.shawneecourt.org>
(host map: lookup (shawneecourt.org): deferred)
PFD:<second...@shawneecourt.org>
I changed the output above so the address is fake.
Robert Bonomi
Sendmail has changed a number of configuration settings in that time.
ONE of those changes regarded the file-access permissions, and _ownership_
of queue files.
There was also at least one change that would have affected the control
file -- a different method of message-ID generation.
I'll guess that the files you're putting in to /var/spool/mqueue have the
wrong permissions and/or ownership. Or that you haven't updated the
control file syntax.