From b732a73bc773789894466b0e5320b2f1fe42c7e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Denker Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 18:58:45 -0700 Subject: original, as downloaded from http://www.qmail.org/netqmail-1.06.tar.gz --- qmail-log.5 | 266 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 266 insertions(+) create mode 100644 qmail-log.5 (limited to 'qmail-log.5') diff --git a/qmail-log.5 b/qmail-log.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..52cd0e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/qmail-log.5 @@ -0,0 +1,266 @@ +.TH qmail-log 5 +.SH NAME +qmail-log \- the qmail activity record +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B qmail-send +prints a series of lines describing its activities. +Each possible line is described below. +.SH "STATUS" +.TP +.B status: local \fIl\fB/\fIL\fB remote \fIr\fB/\fIR\fB ... +.B qmail-send +is waiting for +.I l +local deliveries +and +.I r +remote deliveries. +The concurrency limits are +.I L +and +.IR R . +.TP +.B status: exiting +.B qmail-send +is done. +.SH "FATAL PROBLEMS" +.TP +.B alert: cannot start: ... +.B qmail-send +is unable to prepare itself for delivering messages; +it is giving up. +This normally indicates a serious configuration error, +but it can be caused by a temporary lack of resources. +.TP +.B alert: oh no! lost ... +One of the other daemons has died. +.B qmail-send +will exit as soon as possible. +.SH "SERIOUS PROBLEMS" +.TP +.B alert: unable to append to bounce message... +.B qmail-send +is unable to record a permanent failure, +usually because the disk is full. +This is a very serious problem; +.B qmail-send +cannot proceed without recording the results. +It will try again in ten seconds. +.TP +.B alert: out of memory... +.B qmail-send +tried to allocate more memory and failed. +It will try again in ten seconds. +.TP +.B alert: unable to opendir... +.B qmail-send +is having trouble reading a file list from disk, +usually because the system's file descriptor table is full, +but possibly because permissions are set incorrectly. +It will try again in ten seconds. +.TP +.B alert: unable to switch back... +.B qmail-send +was sent SIGHUP, +and it is unable to reenter the queue directory. +This is a very serious problem; +.B qmail-send +cannot proceed outside the queue directory. +It will try again in ten seconds. +.TP +.B alert: unable to reread... +.B qmail-send +was sent SIGHUP, +but it is unable to read the new controls. +It will continue operating with the original controls. +.SH "MESSAGES" +.TP +.B new msg \fIm\fB +.B qmail-send +is going to preprocess a queued message. +The message number, +.IR m , +is its disk inode number. +After a message is removed from the queue, +its number can be reused immediately. +.TP +.B info msg \fIm\fB: bytes \fIb\fB from <\fIs\fB> qp \fIq\fB uid \fIu\fB +Message +.I m +contains +.I b +bytes; +its envelope sender is +.IR s ; +it was queued by a user with user ID +.IR u . +.I q +is a long-term queue identifier, +the process ID of the +.B qmail-queue +that queued the message. +.TP +.B bounce msg \fIm\fB qp \fIq\fB +Message +.I m +had some delivery failures. +The long-term queue identifier of the bounce (or double-bounce) message +is +.IR q . +.TP +.B triple bounce: discarding ... +Message +.I m +had some delivery failures, +but it is already a double-bounce message, +so it must be thrown away. +Triple-bounce messages do not exist. +.TP +.B end msg \fIm\fB +.B qmail-send +is about to remove +message +.I m +from the queue. +.SH "DELIVERIES" +.TP +.B starting delivery \fId\fB: msg \fIm\fB to ... +.B qmail-send +is telling +.B qmail-lspawn +or +.B qmail-rspawn +to deliver message +.I m +to one recipient. +The delivery number, +.IR d , +starts at 1 and increases by 1 for each new delivery. +.TP +.B delivery \fId\fB: success: ... +Delivery +.I d +was successful. +.TP +.B delivery \fId\fB: failure: ... +Delivery +.I d +failed permanently. +The message will bounce. +.TP +.B delivery \fId\fB: deferral: ... +Delivery +.I d +failed temporarily. +This recipient will be retried later. +.TP +.B delivery \fId\fB: report mangled, will defer +There is a serious bug in +.B qmail-lspawn +or +.BR qmail-rspawn . +This recipient will be retried later. +.SH "WARNINGS" +.TP +.B internal error: delivery report out of range +.B qmail-lspawn +or +.B qmail-rspawn +has supplied a report on a nonexistent delivery. +This is a serious bug. +.TP +.B qmail-clean unable to clean up ... +For some reason +.B qmail-clean +is unable to remove the indicated file. +It will try again later. +.TP +.B trouble fsyncing ... +.B qmail-send +was unable to write to disk the results of preprocessing a queued message. +It will try again later. +.TP +.B trouble in select +There is an operating system bug. +.TP +.B trouble injecting bounce message... +.B qmail-send +was unable to queue a bounce message, +usually because the disk is full. +It will try again later. +.TP +.B trouble marking ... +.B qmail-send +was unable to record the result of a successful or permanently +unsuccessful delivery. +This means that the delivery will be tried again later. +.TP +.B trouble opening ... +.B qmail-send +was unable to open the list of local or remote recipients +for a message. +It will try again later. +.TP +.B trouble reading ... +Either +.B qmail-send +is unable to read a recipient list, +or it is unable to read the envelope of a queued +message, or it is out of memory. +Whatever it was doing, it will try again later. +.TP +.B trouble writing to ... +.B qmail-send +was unable to preprocess a queued message, +usually because the disk is full. +It will try again later. +.TP +.B unable to create ... +.B qmail-send +was unable to preprocess a queued message, +usually because the disk is out of inodes. +It will try again later. +.TP +.B unable to open ... +.B qmail-send +is unable to read the envelope of a queued message +for preprocessing. +It will try again later. +.TP +.B unable to start qmail-queue... +.B qmail-send +is unable to queue a bounce message, +usually because the machine is almost out of memory. +It will try again later. +This can also be caused by incorrect settings of +.B $QMAILQUEUE +or errors in a program or script which +.B $QMAILQUEUE +points to. +.TP +.B unable to stat ... +.B qmail-send +is unable to obtain information about a file that should exist. +It will try again later. +.TP +.B unable to unlink ... +.B qmail-send +is unable to remove a file. +It will try again later. +.TP +.B unable to utime ... +.B qmail-send +is about to exit, +and it is unable to record on disk +the next scheduled delivery time for a message. +The message will be retried as soon as +.B qmail-send +is restarted. +.TP +.B unknown record type in ... +There is a serious bug in either +.B qmail-queue +or +.BR qmail-send . +.SH "SEE ALSO" +qmail-send(8) -- cgit v1.2.3