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Author: Odhiambo Washington
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Issues with exim -bt and possible race condition...
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Tony Finch <dot@???> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>>
>> Now, running `exim -bt` is an issue ....
>> How do I circumvent this?
>
> Use the address_test precondition. You might need two routers, one for
> testing mode and one for normal mode.


Eeh? I did not understand that. Could you please elaborate?


>> 2008-08-07 11:50:10 1KR1C3-000KNF-MB failed to unlink
>> /var/spool/exim/msglog/3/1KR1C3-000KNF-MB
>>
>> Is this some race condition?
>
> It might be because the message log is never being created in the first
> place. Do you ever get "Couldn't open message log" errors? If not, the
> patch below might provide enlightenment.
>
> --- src/deliver.c       22 Aug 2007 14:20:28 -0000      1.45
> +++ src/deliver.c       7 Aug 2008 11:10:33 -0000
> @@ -6554,7 +6554,8 @@
>     else
>       {
>       if (Uunlink(spoolname) < 0)
> -        log_write(0, LOG_MAIN|LOG_PANIC_DIE, "failed to unlink %s", spoolname);
> +        log_write(0, LOG_MAIN|LOG_PANIC_DIE, "failed to unlink %s: %s",
> +           spoolname, strerror(errno));
>       }
>     }


I have to answer this after another couple of hours.... after I get
the messages again...



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