> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthias Fuhrmann
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 6:50 PM
> To: Kevin W. Gagel
> Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org
> Subject: RE: REPOST:Need some help with - EX_IOERR 74
> input/output error
>
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Kevin W. Gagel wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > >> Has anyone got any idea's on this? No one responded to my first
> > >> post on it.
> > >> ---
> > >> I'm using a script to pipe messages to spamc. Out of
> about 90,000
> > >> messages passed to spamc via the script about 7,000
> failed with an
> > >> error code of 74.
> > >>
> > >> What does spamc mean by EX_IOERR?
> > >>
> > >> Is this a failure between my script and spamc or something else?
> > >
> > >Ok, ok... I'll come to the rescue! :)
> > >
> > >I've fought this before. I believe the problem was improper
> > >commenting of user parameter passed via my perl script.
> Can you show
> > >me your code that calls spamc plz?
> >
> > OK, I've uploaded it to my filestore, you can access it at:
> > http://mail.cnc.bc.ca/users/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/EX_IOERR/mailfilter.txt
> >
> > I'm not sure it'll be a parameter as only about 7,000
> messages failed
> > out of 90,000. Unless its some kind of time out... But thats the
> > thing, I don't know what the error 70 means.
>
> look for a file called sysexits.h. there you can get the
> meaning of error codes. taken from a feroda sysexits.h:
> EX_IOERR -- An error occurred while doing I/O on some file.
> define EX_IOERR 74 /* input/output error */
>
> well, thats not much of information. but place a 'set -x' at
> the top of your bash script, this might help discovering the problem.
>
Also, man spamc lists all the possible return codes.
EX_USAGE 64 command line usage error
EX_DATAERR 65 data format error
EX_NOINPUT 66 cannot open input
EX_NOUSER 67 addressee unknown
EX_NOHOST 68 host name unknown
EX_UNAVAILABLE 69 service unavailable
EX_SOFTWARE 70 internal software error
EX_OSERR 71 system error (e.g., can't fork)
EX_OSFILE 72 critical OS file missing
EX_CANTCREAT 73 can't create (user) output file
EX_IOERR 74 input/output error
EX_TEMPFAIL 75 temp failure; user is invited to retry
EX_PROTOCOL 76 remote error in protocol
EX_NOPERM 77 permission denied
EX_CONFIG 78 configuration error
Dallas
