Hi!

I have a mail server which run Red Hat 7.3 with kernel 2.4.20-promise on an Acer Altos R300 platform. The mail server is running postfix and MailScanner, and not much else.

In the last week our mail server has crashed every day several times, until we realized that the server seems to crash every time a certain user accesses his mailbox. In trying to solve the problem we tried to "cp" the file for his user mailbox to another directory but this also crashes the system. Any access to that file, no matter how (except for "ls") causes the server to crash. We tried to cp other mailboxes and they didn't cause a problem, only that one file does that we know of so far.

When I say crash, I mean even the console is black, absolutely everything is frozen, which forces us to do a hard reboot. On bootup the filesystem check does find orphan i-nodes most of the time, but then passes the check successfully after the fix.

Could someone please help me to fix that file?

Thanks in advance!
Poca Hontas

do not double post ...

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Hi there. This topic doesn't seem to be specific to running Linux in an enterprise, i.e. the issue is a generic problem, not one that is unique to a business situation. I'm closing this thread so you may watch this thread for follow-ups. It's likely to get more responses in General.

Please pick the most appropriate forum to start a thread and only start one thread per topic.