Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/01/09/14:00:59
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 09:32:08AM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> Cygwin:
>
> I have a Debian box and several Cygwin boxes that back themselves up
> every night and rsync the tarballs to a central Cygwin/XP backup server.
> It all works, with the exception that I can't figure out how to get the
> Cygwin boxes to send me e-mail reports (the Debian box does this, and
> it's very useful). I've downloaded, installed, and configured Cygwin
> exim (and opened up the Windows Firewall SMTP port) expecting that cron
> would send messages via the /usr/sbin/sendmail symbolic link, but that
> didn't seem to do the trick. I downloaded, installed, and fumbled
> around with everything else available under the Cygwin Setup "Mail"
> category, plus some manual command-line tests, looking at logs, etc.,
> but couldn't figure it out. I searched the Cygwin FAQ, User's Guide,
> and mailing list, and searched Google for permutations on "Cygwin cron
> mail", but I didn't find anything that looked like it addressed this
> specific issue.
>
>
> Is Cygwin cron supposed to send e-mail reports?
Yes.
According to your logs below, you seem to have two problems:
1) queue runner fork problems, probably due to a rebase issue.
(I am not an expert, not having been a victim)
2) a mail delivery issue:
> 2005-01-09 09:18:21 IA282L-00030G-88 <= dpchrist AT p42800e U=dpchr
> ist P=local S=716
> 2005-01-09 09:18:21 IA282L-00030G-88 cloud.he.net [65.19.145.2]:
> Software caused connection abort
> 2005-01-09 09:18:21 IA282L-00030G-88 == dpchrist AT holgerdanske DOT co
> m R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (113): Software caused connection abort
This shows that a mail was generated locally (from cron, I assume).
The delivery failed, apparently because of an issue at the remote end,
but perhaps with a local root cause (rebase?).
(I grep'ed "Software caused" in the exim source and didn't find it.)
You could try to find details by running "exim -d dpchrist AT holgerdanske DOT com"
from the command line (type CR + a few words + CR when exim seems to wait for
input).
ssmtp is less likely to suffer rebase issue. Use ssmtp-config.
Pierre
>
>
> p.s. Here is a command line test of Debian mail:
>
> dpchrist AT p166d302:~$ mail -s test dpchrist AT holgerdanske DOT com
> This is a test of Debian mail invoked as follows:
> mail -s test dpchrist AT holgerdanske DOT com
> .
> Cc:
> dpchrist AT p166d302:~$
>
> It worked -- e.g. the Debian box sent it via SMTP to the recipient.
>
>
> p.p.s. Here is a command line test using Cygwin email:
>
> dpchrist AT p42800e:~$ email -s test dpchrist AT holgerdanske DOT com
> Sending "test" |**************************************** \
> 96% of 569 Bytes
> E-Mail Sent
>
> It didn't work. Looking at the logs:
>
> dpchrist AT p42800e:~$ tail -n 6 /var/log/exim/exim_main.log
> 2005-01-09 08:45:41 daemon: fork of queue-runner process failed:
> Resource temporarily unavailable
> 2005-01-09 09:00:41 daemon: fork of queue-runner process failed:
> Resource temporarily unavailable
> 2005-01-09 09:15:41 daemon: fork of queue-runner process failed:
> Resource temporarily unavailable
> 2005-01-09 09:18:21 IA282L-00030G-88 <= dpchrist AT p42800e U=dpchr
> ist P=local S=716
> 2005-01-09 09:18:21 IA282L-00030G-88 cloud.he.net [65.19.145.2]:
> Software caused connection abort
> 2005-01-09 09:18:21 IA282L-00030G-88 == dpchrist AT holgerdanske DOT co
> m R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (113): Software caused connection abor
> t
>
> dpchrist AT p42800e:~$ tail -n 3 /var/log/exim/exim_panic.log
> 2005-01-09 08:45:41 daemon: fork of queue-runner process failed:
> Resource temporarily unavailable
> 2005-01-09 09:00:41 daemon: fork of queue-runner process failed:
> Resource temporarily unavailable
> 2005-01-09 09:15:41 daemon: fork of queue-runner process failed:
> Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> Is this the Cygwin rebase issue? I don't see "rebase" in the
> Cygwin FAQ or User's Guide. Is there something that explains the
> Cygwin rebase issue?
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