Thanks to Mike Iglesias <iglesias_at_draco.acs.uci.edu> for helping me out
with this. He suggested I do
/usr/lib/sendmail -q -v
to observe the operation of sendmail as it tries to process queued
messages. This worked! It was clear which message was causing the core
dump. It turned out to be a bit of spam (addressed to me as it happens)
with oddball gibberish in the To: field. I deleted the message from the
queue and all is now well. I guess I won't be able to read that message.
Darn! :-)
My original post follows:
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Hello everyone!
I've just noticed that I'm getting a core file from sendmail that seems to
be appearing in /var/spool/mqueue every 15 minutes or so. This has been
happening since at least yesterday -- and perhaps for very much longer
than that. I could believe that it's been doing this for weeks -- even
months -- although I don't know that for sure. No abnormal messages are
being written to the syslog and I have not noticed any problem with mail
either coming or going. There are some queued up files in
/var/spool/mqueue, but nothing that looks to my eye as abnormal.
I'm not sure how I should go about tracking this one down. Any advice?
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Peter
pchapin_at_twilight.vtc.vsc.edu
http://twilight.vtc.vsc.edu/~pchapin/
Received on Thu Sep 10 1998 - 18:10:48 NZST