Re: [Exim] Slightly corrupt log message?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Phillips, Alan
CC: 'exim-users@exim.org', Patterson, Norman
Subject: Re: [Exim] Slightly corrupt log message?
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Phillips, Alan wrote:

> Noticed this in our logs today (Exim 3.03). The "/var/log/exim" bit on the end
> looks like a bit of buffer corruption?
>
> 1999-11-18 07:34:45 refused relay (host_accept_relay) to
> <tophat@???> from <bogus@???> H=(rebo.lancs.ac.uk)
> [198.31.84.60]/var/log/exim


What gets printed there is an error message if there was an attempt to
look up the host's name and it failed. Looks like either that message is
getting corrupted, or not set empty when it should be. Thanks for the
report. I'll take a look at all the places the pointer gets set and see
if I can spot the bug.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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