On (2002/11/07 10:52), Andy Mell wrote:
> --On 07 November 2002 10:36 +0000 exim-users-request@??? wrote:
>
> >>(a) '-D' files never get erased
> >>(b) '-H' files don't get written; instead multi character gob-el-d-y-goop
> >> names with lots of control characters get written in the spool
> >> directory - these files contain what appears to be the message-ID.
> >
> >Looks suspiciously like some kind of memory overwriting problem.
>
> I have to say I am getting deja vu here... Sounds very similar to my
> problem apart from the control characters.
For what it's worth, I've seen this once in a year's worth of operation.
It happened on a FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE box torward the beginning of this
year, and was the result of a SoftUpdates inconsistency -- nothing to do
with Exim.
Exim choked on these goblins until I fsck'd the spool filesystem.
Ciao,
Sheldon.
