[BlueOnyx:00304] Re: Customers unable to use mail services

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

Alex Moen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Have not yet upgraded to BlueOnyx, planning to as soon as time allows and I can test it out.
> 
> Until then, we have a NuOnce BlueCentOS server that is experiencing the "check pass; user unknown" and "PAM_pwdb[22983]: get passwd; pwdb: structure 
> is no longer valid" errors.  The fix, according to Google, was at http://www.nuonce.net/bq-howto.php?action=view&id=23... which is no longer in 
> existence. I realize that this is a mailing list for BlueOnyx, and I apologize for the off-topic post, but this seems to be where the expertise for 
> BlueCentOS has moved to since the other list is off-air.
> 
> Does anyone have an answer for this?  We have a couple of those really impatient customers that are nasty if things don't go perfectly right on this 
> server, and we had to reboot it twice last week to get this problem solved.  Unfortunately, we don't find out about the problem until they are upset 
> and worked into a frenzy.

Is dbrecover running?

# service dbrecover status

What I would do is:
# service dbrecover stop
# service dbrecover start
# service xinetd restart
# service dovecot restart

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