Thanks once more for your help, Alan. I'm glad to say that the problem has somehow solved itself. After a week or so and a few dozen failures, the thing suddenly works. I suspect that the gremlin saw my >alias fetch='strace -o /dev/null fetchmail'< and gave up trying to torture me and started obeying >fetchmail<. It's worked half a dozen times in a row.
If anyone has similar problems, it might result from the rewrite section of /etc/exim.config. I had blindly copied 'bcfrF' as flags, but on re-Ring TFM decided that 'frF' was more appropriate. I feel sure I was still getting segfaults after this change, but I must be wrong since I can't think of any other change I made that could have affected things. Thanks again. David On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 01:18:21PM -0700, Alan Chen wrote: > Um.. How comfortable are you with compiling your own packages? > > I'd recommend a source recompile of fetchmail. If that still segfaults, > then you can start adding print statements into the code to try to > throw off timing and get a sense of where the race is occuring. > > Other than that, I'd find a fetchmail developer or debian package > maintainer and work out debugging with them. > > --Alan > > --- David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks. I can understand the principle, if not the technical detail. > > Any idea how I fix the race so that the best man wins? > > > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 09:48:23AM -0700, Alan Chen wrote: > > > A race condition of some sort? > > > > > > --- David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Fetchmail consistently segfaults on me, but >strace fetchmail< > > > > consistently succeeds. I suppose I could run fetchmail through > > > > strace for the rest of my life, but I wondered if anyone could > > > > suggest what this behaviour might indicate. I'm utterly out > > > > of my depth here. > > > > > > > > TIA > > > > > > > > David > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > > > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
