Bug#501892: /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base exits with return code 123

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Sun Oct 12 16:42:08 UTC 2008


On 2008-10-11 Olivier Berger <oberger at ouvaton.org> wrote:
> Package: exim4-base
> Version: 4.69-9
> Severity: normal


> I get this mailed by cron :
> run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base exited with return code 123

> By issueing :
> EX4DEBUG=true /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base

> I was able to track it down to the last lines invoking exim_tidydb.

> I added some debugging and saw this :

> + find /var/spool/exim4/db -maxdepth 1 -name '*.lockfile' -or -type f
> -printf '%f\0'
> + xargs -0r -n 1 start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb
> --chuid Debian-exim:Debian-exim -- /var/spool/exim4
> + find /var/spool/exim4/db -maxdepth 1 -name '*.lockfile' -or -type f
> -printf '%f\0'
> + su - --shell /bin/bash --command 'xargs -0r -n 1 echo
> /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim4' Debian-exim
> /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim4 log.0000000001
[...]

Have you got any idea where you got this file from
/var/spool/exim4/db/log.0000000001? - What does it contain?
cu andreas





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