Once upon a time, Chris Adams <cmadams_at_hiwaay.net> said:
> I just upgraded a system to 5.1A (clean install). I am now getting
> files in /tmp that appear to be from evmlogger (I guess):
>
> $ ls -l evm*
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root system 336 Feb 2 19:20 evmlog_details.257412
It turns out that this is mostly my fault. When installing an updated
version of sendmail from sendmail.org, I scrupulously renamed all the
Tru64 sendmail files (so I didn't overwrite them and I could go back if
needed), including the /usr/lib/sendmail symlink, which the new sendmail
install didn't replace.
Jem Treadwell <Jem.Treadwell_at_compaq.com> helped debug this (mostly
explaining some of the workings of the Event Management system): it
looks like there is a race condition between /usr/bin/mail returning an
error because it can't find /usr/lib/sendmail and closing the pipe,
causing the call to mail the EVM warning to exit without cleaning up
after itself. Restoring /usr/lib/sendmail solved the problem.
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Chris Adams <cmadams_at_hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
Received on Wed Feb 06 2002 - 15:29:18 NZDT