On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Ian Jackson wrote:
> A related piece of information is that at 00:09 the mail system gets
> shut down for backups to take place. This is done by sending a
> SIGTERM to every Exim process running, pretty much simultaneously.
I suspect that this is a race. The log lines got written and the message
to mailmaster generated, as indicated by this:
> 1999-09-08 00:09:03 11OTt8-00088k-00 == JOHNSMITH@??? T=smtp defer (-1): smtp transport process returned non-zero status 0x000f: terminated by signal 15
> 1999-09-08 00:09:03 11OTt8-00088k-00 Frozen
> 1999-09-08 00:09:03 11OUMJ-00006t-00 <= <> R=11OTt8-00088k-00 U=mail P=local S=618
Then, just as it was about to update the header file, it got chopped.
OK, you are now going to tell me that I shouldn't output the log line
"Frozen" or send the message until after the header file has been
updated. Maybe I can improve the order in which things are done. I will
take a look.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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