On 2009-04-28 at 07:35 +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> work0.psg.com:/var/spool/exim/db# exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim retry
> Tidying Exim hints database /var/spool/exim/db/retry
>
>
> top shows
>
> PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
> 38730 root 1 62 0 7772M 3432M pfault 1 0:25 16.26% exim_tidydb
>
>
> system locks up and requires remote power bar
Then the system is fairly hosed. You should be able to run the tidy as
exim, IIRC, but even so a lock-up like that is rare.
My thoughts turn to the FreeBSD-SA-09:07.libc and the libc updates for
db security issues and wondering whether the patch for your branch is
bad -- it seems the most likely recent change. I've updated libc since
that, but not recompiled Exim, and this is 7.0 amd64. No problems
observed.
