Re: [Exim] freebsd 5.2.1 + exim 4.30

Woon Wai Keen @ doubleukay.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is anyone using this combination? I was previously using freebsd 5.1 +
> exim 4.30 and it worked smoothly. However, after I upgraded (cvsup, make
> build/installkernel, make build/installworld) to 5.2.1, exim suddenly
> started barfing.
>
> I get lots of segfaults like these:
>
> (/var/log/dmesg.today)
> pid 97038 (exim-4.30-0), uid 26: exited on signal 11
> pid 97042 (exim-4.30-0), uid 26: exited on signal 11
> pid 97249 (exim-4.30-0), uid 26: exited on signal 11
> pid 97323 (exim-4.30-0), uid 26: exited on signal 11
>
> And lots of strange 'space check failed' warnings like these:
>
> (/var/log/exim/mainlog)
> 2004-03-07 03:58:21 spool directory space check failed: space=0 inodes=0
> 2004-03-07 03:58:36 spool directory space check failed: space=0 inodes=0
>
> I've removed the space check from the exim source and recompiled,
> reinstalled it. However, I don't know what implications this may cause.
> I don't even know why the space check fails in the first place. There
> are three exim installs on this system (1 in the root, 2 in separate
> jails) and all of them exhibit the same warning.
>
> If anyone's using freebsd 5.2.1 and exim 4.30, could you please reply
> and tell me how's it going on your setup? Thanks.

Try installing from the port:
cd /usr/ports/mail/exim; make install

and ask me, the maintainer or ports@??? if the problems persist.

-Oliver