[tech] UCC backup status, was Re: Cron <backups at mollitz> /backups/bin/rdiff-manager/rdiff-manager.py (fwd)

[Mark Tearle]

Hi folks

On Tue, 21 Jun 2022, at 1:35 PM, Nick Bannon wrote:

> 2. We used to get emails when things were wrong, looks like that broke
>    as we started to seriously decomission mooneye last year? and now
>    all outgoing messages sit in its queue, going nowhere:
> ```
> root at mollitz:/var/log# mailq
> -Queue ID-  --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
> E66311F8       2903 Mon Jun 20 07:30:48  MAILER-DAEMON
> (delivery temporarily suspended: connect to 
> smarthost.mail.ucc.asn.au[130.95.13.19]:25: Connection timed out)
>                                          root at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
> 08814236      16202 Sat Jun 18 02:00:16  backups at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
> (delivery temporarily suspended: connect to 
> smarthost.mail.ucc.asn.au[130.95.13.19]:25: Connection timed out)
>                                          hostmaster at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
> [...]
> root at mollitz:/var/log# postcat -vqb 08814236|less
> [...]
> regular_text: OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device: 
> '/backups/murasoi/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0'
> regular_text: Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system
> regular_text: Backup failed with error 1
> ```

That was probably me that broke it when I rolled out a standard mail config across the hosts.    The question is how was it working before?   Is there a tunnel to mollitz or some firewall rules to let mail work from it?

I'll try and have a look this evening.

Cheers,
Mark
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Mark Tearle <mtearle at ucc.asn.au>