Milter-greylist

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, manu@... wrote:

> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:29:47 +0200
> From: manu@...
> Reply-To: milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com
> To: Milter Greylist list <milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [milter-greylist] crash on db dump (still)
> 
> Jeff A. Earickson <jaearick@...> wrote:
>
>> I now get this with 4.0b1:
>>
>>     cannot write dumpfile "/var/milter-greylist/greylist.db-XXn4aOmb":
>>     Error 0
>
> Hum... errno was not set after a failed fdopen? Any Solaris expert that
> could explain what is going on?
>
> Many Solaris users have trouble with this stupid libc limitation. There
> are two ways of fixing that:
> 1) build a 64 bit binary
> 2) Give a try to Johann E. Klasek's patch, which I should integrate just
> after 4.0 is released:
> http://jk.kom.tuwien.ac.at/~jklasek/software/milter-greylist/
> mg.stdio-solaris.patch

After a day of running this patch, I have backed it out.  It did not help
and may have made things worse.  I had a dumpfile crash 7 times yesterday
and 6 times so far since midnight.  I have a cron job that restarts
milter-greylist if it disappears from the process list.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College