Re: [Exim] PAX Killing Exim 4.31?

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Author: Marc MERLIN
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To: Scott Call
CC: Exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] PAX Killing Exim 4.31?
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 05:38:28PM -0700, Scott Call wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Marc MERLIN wrote:
>
> > Typically, that's because of a bug in Exim (or one of the libs/calls it
> > uses), that causes it to go out of bounds.
> > With PAX, it gets killed before it has a chance to get a SEGV from the kernel
> >
> > Either way, PAX is not responsible for this as far as I can tell, and
> > chpax won't help you. I'm almost certain that you're just hitting an exim crash
>
> Okay, thanks for the info. From what I was able to google, someone had
> recommended turning off perl to avoid these errors, so I was wondering if
> the perl support tried to execute from data segments or something like
> that.


Well, there's an easy way to find out
chpax -p /usr/sbin/exim
chpax -s /usr/sbin/exim

Marc
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