I have anacron set up to do daily tasks, including updating peerguardian lists -- which generates a mail almost immediately, and generates a second mail a few minutes later -- and cycling logs, including exim's logs. Everything works great, except that about half the time, I get this in my syslog: Jul 8 07:38:54 hostname exim[6319]: 2016-07-08 07:38:54 <mailid> failed to write to main log: length=92 result=-1 errno=9 (Bad file descriptor) Jul 8 07:38:54 hostname exim[6319]: write failed on panic log: length=116 result=-1 errno=9 (Bad file descriptor)
I figured it had exim's logfile open, the logs got cycled, and the file descriptor was bad. But... 1) I thought it should handle that gracefully 2) It only prints the error to syslog about half the time 3) Oddest thing: if I look in exim's main log, the first mail always works fine (and goes to the new log file); the second email, which gets sent about three minutes later, is the only one that has a problem. When it has a problem, the mainlog looks like this: 2016-07-08 07:35:15 <mailid1> <= [email protected] U=root P=local S=55147 2016-07-08 07:35:15 <mailid1> => loginname <root@hostname> R=local_user T=mail_spool 2016-07-08 07:35:15 <mailid1> Completed 2016-07-08 07:38:54 <mailid2> <= [email protected] U=root P=local S=1074 2016-07-08 07:46:46 Start queue run: pid=6394 2016-07-08 07:46:46 <mailid2> => loginname <root@hostname> R=local_user T=mail_spool 2016-07-08 07:46:46 <mailid2> Completed As you can see, the first mail after log cycling works. The second mail, sent about three minutes later, doesn't complete immediately; but the next time the queue runs, at 7:46, it does get sent. In fact, the second message shows up in my mailbox twice. It's not the worst problem in the world, but it would be nice if I could figure out what's going on. I was previously using /usr/sbin/logrotate, and then switched to using exicyclog to cycle exim's logs, but the problem is exactly the same -- about half the time the above problem shows up (and the other half, everything works just like it should, with no error messages to syslog). Any ideas? Anything I can try? Thanks! -- ## List details at https://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/
