AIX has a similar command istat, I have created a script to run and store it every 5 minutes and send me a text msg if the problem shows up...........

Timo Sirainen wrote:

On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 15:23 -0400, Stewart Dean wrote:

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3. What can I do to debug it, given that it happens infrequently and of no known causation? What should I check and look for afterwards? I guess I could put a cronjob that checks that /var/run/dovecot/login/ default= and ssl-parameters.dat exists periodically

do "ls -la /var/run/dovecot/login" now, and when it breaks do it again. Also check /var/run/dovecot/login directory's inode (I've this nice "stat" command in Linux, don't know about AIX).

That would tell if the files were really deleted or if the login directory was recreated.

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Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504
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