Re: [Exim] Needing help

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Dirk Slaghekke
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Needing help
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Dirk Slaghekke wrote:

> 2001-08-17 14:21:23 15Xixg-0004Vi-00 Failed to get write lock for
> /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: timed out
> 2001-08-17 14:21:23 15Xixg-0004Vi-00 Failed to open wait-remote_smtp
> database: Connection timed out
> 2001-08-17 14:21:24 15Xix7-0004UP-00 Failed to get write lock for
> /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: timed out
> 2001-08-17 14:21:24 15Xix7-0004UP-00 Failed to open wait-remote_smtp
> database: Connection timed out


Those are errors that occurred when Exim was trying to lock its hints
database by calling fcntl(). It signifies that something weird was going
on, but I cannot really say what.

Which release of Exim?


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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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