Hi Daniel, On Aug 5 18:28, D. Boland wrote: > Hi group, > > I'm still working on getting Sendmail working for Cygwin. I'm almost done, > the devil > is in the details... > > I'm getting the 'Bad file descriptor' system error after building the mail > aliases > database. The building itself is done successful, but logging the event to the > system log fails with this message. > > Somehow the two are connected. The alias database (aliases.db) is built from > a plain > text file (aliases). If I leave the aliases file writable to the sendmail > user, I > find that the error message strings have been put right into the alias > text-file: > > $ cat /etc/mail/aliases > <21>sendmail: PID 1848: alias database /etc/mail/aliases rebuilt by > smmspsenet: root > news: root > webmaster: root > www: root > ftp: root > abuse: root > noc: root > security: root > root: SYSTEM > <22>sendmail: PID 1848: /etc/mail/aliases: 9 aliases, longest 6 bytes, 82 > bytes > total > > If I make the 'aliases' file read-only, then the file is not corrupted, but > the > error occurs.
I don't see that this has to do with syslog. There's a writev to fd 3, but you stripped the strace so we don't know what fd 3 is connected to. Also, syslog writes the output to the Windows event log by default, unless you have a syslog daemon running, connected to /dev/log. So I guess we first have to know what fd 3 is connected to, and then how to reproduce the issue. Corinna
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