On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 04:24:48PM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> > 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?
Hello. Sorry for the sketchy question. OK, the system log files (messages
and maillog) show nothing about exim. Exim's mainlog has nothing either.
However, I've noticed that these core dumps are happening only when doing
local deliveries. Some deliveries do take place, most don't. However,
there's no trace of exim failing in the mainlog. An incoming message is
simply logged, and it's not logged as being delivered. when I look at the
queue, its waiting, and only gets delivered when I force a queue run. The
rejectlog has nothing useful either - only rejected connections trying to
relay off my server. However, the panic log is strange. I don't understand:
1998-07-27 19:59:55 0z0qcr-0005HR-00 user "rom%s%s <%s>" for file existence test not found
1998-07-27 21:54:49 0z0sPw-0007jp-00 Rewrite of sukh@??? yielded unqualified or unparseable address "postmaster@???@umsg.postmastmalformed address: @umsg.postmaster may not follow postmaster@???"
1998-07-27 22:51:07 0z0tIX-0000zB-00 user "rom%s%s <%s>" for file existence test not found
1998-07-27 23:03:43 0z0tUa-0001YX-00 user "rom%s%s <%s>" for file existence test not found
1998-07-28 02:05:41 0z0wKo-0002nK-00 user "rom%s%s <%s>" for file existence test not found
1998-07-28 07:27:09 0z11Lo-0001Ne-00 user "rom%s%s <%s>" for file existence test not found
1998-07-28 07:37:22 0z11Vn-0001cd-00 user "rom%s%s <%s>" for file existence test not found
1998-07-28 07:52:49 0z11kh-00023d-00 user "rom%s%s <%s>" for file existence test not found
1998-07-28 07:53:01 0z11kx-00023r-00 user "rom%s%s <%s>" for file existence test not found
1998-07-28 08:07:03 0z11yU-0002Du-00 (helo=formnet-svr.form-net.com)
director requires absolute file name for lsearch: generated from expanding
1998-07-28 08:15:23 0z126Z-0002KZ-00 (helo=formnet-svr.form-net.com)
director requires absolute file name for lsearch: generated from expanding
1998-07-28 08:21:21 0z12CK-0002Rf-00 user "rom%s%s <%s>" for file existence test not found
1998-07-28 08:27:30 0z12IJ-0002WQ-00 (helo=formnet-svr.form-net.com)
director requires absolute file name for lsearch: generated from expanding
1998-07-28 08:39:38 0z12Sy-0002gI-00 user "rom%s%s <%s>" for file existence test not found
1998-07-28 08:41:32 0z12B9-0002Qs-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/var/qmail/alias/findtimes.sh
1998-07-28 08:43:34 0z125F-0002K9-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/var/qmail/alias/findtimes.sh
1998-07-28 09:10:44 0z125F-0002K9-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/var/qmail/alias/findtimes.sh
1998-07-28 09:10:46 0z12B9-0002Qs-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/var/qmail/alias/findtimes.sh
1998-07-28 09:41:24 0z125F-0002K9-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/var/qmail/alias/findtimes.sh
1998-07-28 09:41:26 0z12B9-0002Qs-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/var/qmail/alias/findtimes.sh
1998-07-28 09:43:37 0z12B9-0002Qs-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/var/qmail/alias/findtimes.sh
1998-07-28 10:08:11 0z125F-0002K9-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/var/qmail/alias/findtimes.sh
1998-07-28 10:14:58 0z13yG-0004qQ-00 (helo=formnet-svr.form-net.com)
director requires absolute file name for lsearch: generated from expanding
1998-07-28 10:20:57 0z1445-0004vE-00 (helo=formnet-svr.form-net.com)
director requires absolute file name for lsearch: generated from expanding
1998-07-28 10:22:34 0z125F-0002K9-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/var/qmail/alias/findtimes.sh
1998-07-28 10:38:14 0z12B9-0002Qs-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/var/qmail/alias/findtimes.sh
> 2. Which DB library are you using?
I'm not sure. How is it possible to identify the version? I've looked
through the db.h header file in my system source, and that mentions "HASH
VERSION 2" in it. Does that mean it's DB v2 ?
> 3. Have you tried to get any information from the core file?
Again, I'm very sorry. I don't know how to analyse a core file. I'm fairly
new with sys admin stuff. If you can give me pointers, I'll try my best to
see what I can get from the core file.
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Anand
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