User Dm wrote: > On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Vitaly A Zakharov wrote: > >>> I'm wondering why I'm seeing these: >> >>> Connecting to cable1.net [204.251.15.172]:25 ... LOG: PROCESS >>> 84524 delivering 1Gcnjb-000P81-IZ to cable1.net [204.251.15.172] >>> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >>> LOG: PROCESS >>> 84522 delivering 1Gcnjb-000P81-IZ: waiting for a remote delivery >>> subprocess to finish >>> failed: Interrupted system call >> >>> I can't find much info about what Interrupted system call means. >>> thanks. >>> exim 4.53
A workhorse, but the upgrades DID fix some bugs and near-bugs as well as add features. 4.63 was a 100% drop-in for us. portupgraded in-place on several running systems, (light traffic time-of-day) then a restart. No hassle, and no significant downtime. Configure changed very much later to utilize new feature. Painless. >>> freebsd 5.5 Upgrade also recommended. *Wish* it were easy... >>> clamav .88.5 >>> spamassassin 3.1.6 >> Is your spamassassin work properly? > > > yes, no issues that i've seen.. It's handling about 100k messages a week. > Besides, this is on remote delivery, not local. > > > Found one similar log entry in past 13+ months, a balked delivery to a return address that was part of a demo of what is *bound* to break. Related to an off-line 'chat' about why all sysadmins really should block (ich) / should not block (he) - traffic from personal computer MTA's with no fixed address who munge their upstream's dsl-id into HELO-data to try and pass a HELO lookup check. Unproductive discussion, but reason for the obfuscation - sorry... We logged: =============================================================================== 2006-10-15 08:35:51 1GZ1TC-000KYa-Vy => <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> F=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=sentarchiver T=sent_archive_delivery S=1389 H=<hacked-IP-based-addr.city.dsl.domain.tld> QT=9s DT=0s 2006-10-15 08:36:30 1GZ1TC-000KYa-Vy Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2006-10-15 08:36:56 1GZ1TC-000KYa-Vy hacked-IP-based-addr.city.dsl.domain.tld [<far-end-IP>]:25 Interrupted system call 2006-10-15 08:36:56 1GZ1TC-000KYa-Vy == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (4): Interrupted system call 2006-10-15 08:37:25 1GZ1TC-000KYa-Vy == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (-53): retry time not reached for any host ..ended up frozen, manually Mrm 'ed, as we were 'tailing' the log before the hour was out, AND had expected a failure. 2006-10-15 09:26:41 1GZ1TC-000KYa-Vy removed by root 2006-10-15 09:26:41 1GZ1TC-000KYa-Vy Completed When repeated just now, a simple 'defer' and eventual freeze was the result. No 'Interrupted system call' at any point, let alone twice. OTOH, far-end user was known to be changing his environment.... often. ================================================================================ Checked 3 other Exim MTA. A FreeBS 6.2PR 'twin' of the above, plus two running FreeBSD 4.11 with Exim 4.43 and 4.53. No other 'system call' entries for about 3 years. Suggest looking at the time-frame around the original message posted to see if it was something related to how the far-end handled the handshake and/or the underlying IP connection. Dropping it, for example. HTH, Bill -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
