[hypermail] Hypermail crashes

From: G G Papazoglou <grp_at_med.uoc.gr_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 22:53:13 +0300
Message-ID: <002001c2583a$8bb3a970$69083493_at_tsiftalexis>

Hi. I have tried this both with versions 2.1.4 and 2.1.5 with no luck. The following is a strange behaviour, and please forgive me if it is a common issue but I haven't had the time to browse the previous articles.

If I include a "delete_msgnum = xxx" line in my config file to delete a message, hypermail crashes as you can see:

---------BEGIN LOG------------------

Reading old headers...

   6 messages.
Loading mailbox "/home/grp/hyper/ebmbox"...   13 messages.
Writing messages to "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/hypermail/"... ./cronHour.sh: line 12: 22042 Segmentation fault /usr/local/bin/hypermail -p -u -m "/home/grp/hyper/ebmbox" -d
"/usr/local/apache/htdocs/hypermail/" -c "/home/grp/hyper/hypermail.cfg"
Reading old headers...

   6 messages.
Loading mailbox "/home/grp/hyper/ebmbox"...   13 messages.
Writing messages to "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/hypermail/archives/"... ./cronHour.sh: line 15: 22043 Segmentation fault /usr/local/bin/hypermail -p -u -m "/home/grp/hyper/ebmbox" -d
"/usr/local/apache/htdocs/hypermail/archives/" -c
"/home/grp/hyper/hypermail.cfg"

----------END LOG-----------------

This does not happen when the delete_msgnum line is not used. BUT, and AFTER the crash has occured, if I remove this line, kill the stuck processes and wait for the next call to occur, I notice that the message xxx is actually removed !!!!! I really can't tell what's happening. Anyway this behaviour causes me trouble because I call hypermail inside a cron command, and the result is that the application never terminates, leaving the .lock files existing and of course preventing all future executions.

Now I use RedHat 7.3 with Hypermail 2.1.4. Note that this whole situation was not happening when I was using Solaris 8.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Greg Received on Fri 13 Sep 2002 10:38:03 PM GMT