On 12 Jun 2001 08:36:18 +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Paxton, Jon wrote:
>
> > The message id at the top *is* the message id of the filename
> > (155m7y-0004yd-00-D). This message id doesn't appear to be in any of the 3
> > exim logfiles.
>
> That supports the following hypothesis: Exim creates the file and writes
> in the message id (which is the first thing it does). Before it can
> write anything else, it crashes. Somehow the file pointer gets
> scrambled, so that junk in the I/O buffer following the message id gets
> written to the file.
Are there any calls to dbm lookups in that area of the code -
historically in general a crash like that has often been related to this
sort of lookup.
Otherwise I'm starting to suspect a compiler/OS fault
Nigel.
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