Bug#412886: exim4: Segfaults occurring

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 11:14:10AM +0000, Ronny Adsetts wrote:
> Marc Haber said at 19/03/2007 11:15:
> > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:40:37AM +0000, Ronny Adsetts wrote:
> >> Thanks for this. Unfortunately, I'm no longer seeing the server
> >> crashing as the server on the other end stopped trying to re-deliver
> >> the email on Friday. I'll see what I can do to get the problem
> >> reproduced and so get more debug info.
> > 
> > Any news on this? How about contacting the remote side postmaster
> > and asking him to send a message?
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Another follow up on this one. I'm struggling to get a backtrace for
> this. Can one of you provide a little help? I need to either find a
> way to get exim to core dump or to get it to not fork so gdb knows
> what to do.

Asking on exim-user yielded a pointer to core(5), which in turn
pointed me to proc(5). Additionally, Jakob suggeested setting
/proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable to 1 or (safer) 2? to allow exim as a suid
binary to dump core.

The core file is going to be put in exim's spool directory.

Does this help?

Greetings
Marc

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