[Nottingham] Postfix problem...

[David Aldred]

On Sunday 11 Sep 2005 20:34, Simon Amor wrote:
> >> Failing that, have you tried strace to see exactly what the postfix
> >> processes are doing?
> >
> > I have to say that, even having had a look at the man pages, I  
> > really don't
> > know what command to use!
> >
> > What do I feed to strace to find out how postfix is handling  
> > mail?   strace
> > postfix just tells me how postfix handles an incorrect call!
>
> That depends - is postfix running as a daemon? If so, you need to  
> find it's pid and do something like:
>
> strace -p12345 -f -F
>
> That should trace all the system calls of pid 12345 and any children.  
> You then send the email in the normal way and see what it does with it.

Right, done that.

I now have a 260k file of the strace output, and I don't think I'm much the 
wiser.  260k better informed, perhaps, but that's not helping :-(

Any pointers to what to look for?

If anyone wants a look, the full gory detail will arrive in your browser from 
http://aldred.org/strace

-- 
David Aldred