Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 09:45:34 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue2@welearn.com.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: sue@zip.com.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail death note Message-ID: <19980328094534.24608@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19980328080111.52681@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 08:01:11AM %2B1030 References: <19980328005749.40823@zip.com.au> <19980328080111.52681@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 08:01:11AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Sat, 28 March 1998 at 0:57:49 +1000, Sue Blake wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone translate this for me?
> >
> > sendmail: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): SMTP-MAIL: died on signal 11
> > /kernel: pid 18983 (sendmail), uid 0 exited on signal 11
> >
> > These two errror messges have been alternating for two hours.
> > All I've figured out is "signal 11" means something awful is happening :-(
> > There's a vaguely similar question in the archives but no answer.
>
> Signal 11 is SIGSEGV. In programming terms, it means that the program
> has attempted to access memory which doesn't belong to it.
>
> In the case of sendmail, I'd guess that there's something wrong with
> the sendmail configuration. Have you changed anything recently?
Nope. Later it started acting up again and then complained something about
running out of swap. I logged out to give it a chance to catch up with
itself and that didn't help. Eventually the poor thing became incoherent.
Then I cleared the swap the only way I knew how: by rebooting.
I think it understands I mean business now.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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