On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 09:15:54PM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Oliver Cook wrote:
>
> > > > 2001-06-12 20:00:26 159tOr-0000sa-00 Process
> > > > failed (1) when writing error message to
> > > > user@??? (frozen)
>
> > All I've got to go in is that one solitary log line! ;)
>
> Maybe it didn't even manage to start up Exim? Dunno. I'm mystified.
Solved the mystery! :)
One of my colleagues set up a mechanism to distribute
a system_filter around all the mail servers and then
to HUP them to take effect. However, the pid files were
in different places on some legacy systems so he chose
killall -HUP exim - he did tell me at the time, but I'd
just forgotten!
Anyway - all sorted now, and the legacy systems brought
up to speed! It was the timestamp on the log entry that
led me to it ;)
Just a thought, ought hupping an exim child cause it to
fail like it did?
Cheers,
Ollie
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Oliver Cook Systems Administrator, ClaraNET
ollie@??? 020 7903 3065
