09-17-2004
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I have found that the mails which get bounced to the root's mailbox are mostly undelivered mails due to some reason.
This part of your problem is not a problem - it's suppose to do this. If you check your aliases file, postmaster is probably set up to go to root. It has to be going to someone. You could have it go to your account.
RFC 822 - Aliases required by the mail protocol
postmaster: root
MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster
You can change it, but it has to go to a person so errors in your configurations will be known and can be fixed.
If your 'users' are sending to dead addresses in such quanitity that it's overwhelming you, you may want to talk to your 'users'. It may be they are spamming...
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ipcclean
IPCCLEAN(1) PostgreSQL Server Applications IPCCLEAN(1)
NAME
ipcclean - remove shared memory and semaphores from an aborted PostgreSQL server
SYNOPSIS
ipcclean
DESCRIPTION
ipcclean removes all shared memory segments and semaphore sets owned by the current user. It is intended to be used for cleaning up after a
crashed PostgreSQL server (postmaster(1)). Note that immediately restarting the server will also clean up shared memory and semaphores, so
this command is of little real utility.
Only the database administrator should execute this program as it can cause bizarre behavior (i.e., crashes) if run during multiuser execu-
tion. If this command is executed while a postmaster is running, the shared memory and semaphores allocated by the postmaster will be
deleted. This will result in a general failure of the backend servers started by that postmaster.
NOTES
This script is a hack, but in the many years since it was written, no one has come up with an equally effective and portable solution.
Since the postmaster can now clean up by itself, it is unlikely that ipcclean will be improved upon in the future.
The script makes assumption about the format of output of the ipcs utility which may not be true across different operating systems.
Therefore, it may not work on your particular OS.
Application 2002-11-22 IPCCLEAN(1)