[SA-exim] SA-Exim on Sparc crash

[Marc MERLIN]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:56:16PM -0300, Andre Correa wrote:
> 
> Hi Marc and list members, this is my first message here. I found on list 
> archives a thread called: "local_scan is crashing (log_write crash)" 
> that helped me solve a problem on my exim running on a SuSe 7.3 for Sparc.
> 
> I kept getting on logs:
> 
> local_scan() function crashed with signal 11 - message temporarily 
> rejected (size XXXXXX)
> 
> 
> on logs. I found that on Sparc sizeof(off_t)_ = 4, not 8 like in i386, 
> so i breaks log_write as in explained in that thread. I couldn't find 
> its the first message to know if the discussion started with a SPARC 
> user, so I am reporting it again.
> 
> Using (double)(fdsize - 18) on local_scan.c seens to solve the problem 
> temporarilly, untill a new version of sa-exim comes out with a fix.

Get the CVS version, the fix should already be in there
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/files/sa-exim-cvs.tar.gz

Confirmation that it works would be appreciated though

Thanks
Marc
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