RE: [Exim] frozen after connect timeout

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Mike Bethune
CC: exim-users, A. Wik
Subject: RE: [Exim] frozen after connect timeout
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Mike Bethune wrote:

> If connect_timeout option is not set (default of course) then exim
> behaves normally, ie when a timeout occurs, it is properly deferred
> and not frozen, log shows: defer (110): Connection timed out
>
> but if connect_timeout is set, the log shows: defer (-1): smtp
> transport process returned non-zero status 0x000e: terminated by
> signal 14 (and without below patch the message is frozen)
>
> My system is linux, kernel 2.4.20, glibc 2.2.4
> But for the real problem, I guess the alarm handler set by sigaction()
> isn't being set?


Thanks for that additional information. I will pore over the relevant
code and see if I can figure out what may be going wrong.

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