Author: Mr David Robertson Date: To: Randy Bush CC: Phil Pennock, exim-users, Graeme Fowler Subject: Re: [exim] (no subject)
Hi Randy,
Did you find a fix for this problem. Rather has your cvsup and rebuild
worked?
Regards
David
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.
>
> yep. and is happening on at least three systems, two of them where the
> only mail is five outbound log reports a day. all were cvsupped about
> the same time some weeks back when this all started.
>
>> 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.
>
> started maybe two-three weeks ago. but could have been a month gap
> before a cvsup back then. have cvsupped in the last two days again.
>
> am now doing a full cvsup, no -s, and blown away /usr/obj, before
> building kernel and world. will do so again now, just in case. then i
> will force exim rebuild.
>
> that's all i can think of. eye of newt?
>
> randy
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