Re: [Exim] strange failure to lookup IP address

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Lähettäjä: Philip Hazel
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Vastaanottaja: exim
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Aihe: Re: [Exim] strange failure to lookup IP address
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, exim wrote:

> > Odd that it can find 1 and 2 but not 3. Anything obviously different in
> > the hosts file?
>
> There isn't as we use a common hosts file for all Sun boxen.
>
> $ grep mailrelay /etc/inet/hosts
> 10.93.227.166   mailrelay1 vmcrelay01
> 10.93.227.167   mailrelay2 vmcrelay02
> 10.93.246.44    mailrelay3 vmcrelay03
> 10.93.246.45    mailrelay4 vmcrelay04


Very odd then! ... but it suggests that you might do a check to see
that the file is indeed identical on all your Suns. Just in case your
distribution mechanism is broken...

> But, umm... what does full debugging mean?
> *he RTFMs* ahhh "-d+all"


Yes, but usually -d is enough for this purpose. (And if you do +all, you
might as well do -d+all-memory, because memory management stuff gets in
the way.)

> I take it doesn't then fork into the background when specified with
> -bd -q20m for example.


It doesn't. You can kill such a daemon with ^C. Debug output goes to
stderr - and can be quite voluminous on a daemon, of course...

Philip


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