On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Oliver Cook wrote:
> This log excerpt came to my attention this
> morning (line-wrapped):
>
> 2001-06-12 20:00:26 159tOr-0000sa-00 Process
> failed (1) when writing error message to
> user@??? (frozen)
> ... but I can't work out what would cause the
> child to exit with status one. I can see where
> the child is created (deliver.c:5190) but not
> where that child exits.
The child is another instance of Exim, called to receive the error
message. Exim returns 1 when there's a problem in receiving the message
- pretty unusual when its being called by itself, because it usually
knows how to talk to itself. :-) Is there anything on the Exim log (main
or panic) that gives any clue to this?
> The message was successfully dealt with when
> manually thawed.
That suggests some system problem such as running out of process slots,
or running out of file descriptors or some other thing that changes over
time.
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