Kenneth Allan wrote; Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:55 AM
> FYI
>
> BACKGROUND:
>
> Yesterday evening the bluequartz.org system was not
> responding to update requests.
>
> Subject: Cron <root (at mark) ns2> run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
>
> /etc/cron.hourly/yum_checker:
>
>
http://bluequartz.org/pub/BlueQuartz/5100R/CentOS4/bluequartz/i386/repod
ata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno 12]
> Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
> Trying other mirror.
> Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: BlueQuartz
> failure: repodata/repomd.xml from BlueQuartz: [Errno 256] No more
mirrors to try.
> Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from BlueQuartz: [Errno 256] No
more mirrors to try.
These errors should not affect POP3 server...
> PROBLEM:
> After 14 failed yum_checker attempts the POP3 server stopped
responding to logins. The email systems also seem to have stopped
accepting incoming emails.
> SIMPLE SOLUTION:
> Rebooting the systems corrected the situation.
> HISTORY:
> This seems to be an ongoing problem. Looking back over logs, this has
happened several times in recent weeks.
this has been a problem with POP3 logins, appears to be with PAM and the
DB files.
Installing the flat file password system appears to correct the problem.
See;
http://www.nuonce.net/bq-howto.php?action=view&id=23
also this may be relevent;
http://www.solarspeed.net/otrs/public.pl?Action=PublicFAQ&CategoryID=3&I
temID=38
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