On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 10:39:47AM +0000, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Armin M. Hornetz wrote:
> > Although exim seems to work fine for several weeks, it once in a while
> > turns wild and gets /et#/aliases instead of the default /etc/aliases
> While it might be an exim problem, it could also be bad memory
> or a flakey disk. I've heard of a system with some bad memory which
> repeatedly produced the same error in the same cached file.
'#' = 00100011
'c' = 01100011
I'd say it was dodgy RAM. If this is on a PC-style machine, you might be
able to track it down with something like memtest86. See
http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/
Good luck,
Dave
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