Re: [EXIM] exim dumps core

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: arb-exim
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] exim dumps core
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998 arb-exim@??? wrote:

> Hello. I was running exim 2.01 fine until this morning. Today however, it
> has started core dumping. I made some changes as follows:
>
> For a start, I changed my maxusers seeting on my BSDI 2.1 server from 40 to 100 to allow for more processes and open files. Also, until now, I was only
> running exim in send-only mode. This morning I allowed it to accept SMTP
> connections. Since then it has started to dump core frequently. The core
> file appears in /var/exim/spool, which is the spool directory. If I remove
> it, it reappears after a while (a few seconds to a minute). Any suggestions
> as to what might be happening?


1. Is there any information in the exim log files? (mainlog, paniclog,
rejectlog?) Or in the system log?

2. Which DB library are you using?

3. Have you tried to get any information from the core file?

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



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