multilog send hangs and holds messages in queue

[sjcundy]

I have been banging my head against the waill about this for quite a while now.  It appears that every few days (random intervals) multilog/send hangs causing messages to get stuck in the queue.  I can't simply restart the services as I have to kill the process using kill -KILL.  Once I stop the services, kill the multilog/send process, and start the services everything continues on fine.  

I have upgraded the toaster, maillogs, etc serveral times but that hasn't helped.  I have also tried increasing the send_log_maxsize_bytes setting, thinking that this might fix the problem, but changes do not seem to take effect after running any combination of toaster-watcher.pl, toaster_setup.pl, or restarting the services.

Nothing appears in any of the log files that I can see that can give me any indication of why multilog/send hangs - it just decides to stop.  The actual size of the send log file when it hangs is also random.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.  I am hoping someone else has run into this problem and that I am just missing something obvious.  If you need any output of log files, etc just let me know.

Thanks in advance

[matt]

I've seen this on upgrades.  I'm not exactly why, but this should fix it:

services stop

verify that all qmail related processes are not running.

rm /var/service/*/log/run
toaster_setup.pl -s supervise
toaster_setup.pl -s maillogs
services start

All should be hunkey dorey.

[sjcundy]

Thanks a million. Made the changes and so far so good.  Changes in multilog settings took effect after removing the log/run files and I am hoping (no reason to doubt you) that multilog send locking will cease.