Re: smtp dying

[Pavel Urban <urbanp@xxxxxx>]

>Hello,
>
>from time to time, these lines appear in my logs:
>
>Aug 31 00:44:29 smtp-out1 postfix/qmgr[23779]: warning: premature 
>end-of-input on private/smtp socket while reading input attribute name
>Aug 31 00:44:29 smtp-out1 postfix/qmgr[23779]: warning: private/smtp 
>socket: malformed response
>Aug 31 00:44:29 smtp-out1 postfix/qmgr[23779]: warning: transport smtp 
>failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the 
>problem description
>Aug 31 00:44:29 smtp-out1 postfix/master[23775]: warning: process 
>/usr/libexec/postfix/smtp pid 13121 killed by signal 6
>
>Seems like smtp process is dying with signal 6 or 11. That is strange, 
>because it happens on two machines that were running previous versions 
>happily, without problem. Is it possible to instruct Postfix to dump 
>core? Or can you suggest another debugging method? The problem is that 
>these machines are quite loaded and the problem occures infrequently.
>
>My system is RH Linux 3 ES, Postfix re-compiled from S.J.Mudd's SRPM, 
>version 2.1.3-2, with pcre, sasl2 and tls support (I know that this is 
>not 'officialy' supported...)
>

Too bad, the newest RPM exhibits the same behaviour. Anybody else seen 
problems with TLS-enabled Postfix on RH ES 3?
P.U.