On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Phil Pennock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On 2008-09-24 at 17:13 -0400, Chris Zimmerman wrote: > > I keep having issues with certain domains for only an hour or so at a > time. > > I see several messages in my panic_log that say this. > > > > 2008-09-21 07:21:33 1KhN0J-0005fh-1X failed to read delivery status for > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] from delivery subprocess > > 2008-09-21 07:21:33 1KhN0J-0005fh-1X appendfile transport process > returned > > non-zero status 0x000e: terminated by signal 14 > > Signal numbers are mostly OS-dependent, but 14 is fairly widespread as > SIGALRM (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris checked). Which OS are you running? > > What version of Exim are you running? Are you running something older > than 4.33? If you are, then you have various problems which should > encourage you to upgrade anyway (eg, security problems in bundled PCRE > libraries). > > If you're running something in the 4.24 to 4.32 range, then this item > from the ChangeLog is certainly relevant: > > ----------------------------8< cut here >8------------------------------ > Exim version 4.33 > ----------------- > > 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled > before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when > deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. > The > effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused > crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at > its > default (and expected) setting. > ----------------------------8< cut here >8------------------------------ > > We're now up to Exim 4.69 and I encourage you to upgrade to that. > Generally, regressions in Exim are very rare and, being software an > Internet-facing service, security problems do occasionally show up. > It's a good idea to have a plan in place for how to go about qualifying > and upgrading to the latest version when it comes out (provided that the > major number, before the dot, is the same). > > -Phil > Currently I'm running Centos 4.x (4.5 originally), and Exim 4.69 I wish I knew to get more information. I'm looking for any suggestions. Not sure where to go from here. Chris -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
