Phil Pennock wrote: > On 2007-05-12 at 10:02 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > >> I'm seeing a few of these in the log. What does it mean? >> >> SSL_Write error 5 >> > > It helps if you get the error message correct, including case, so that > it's easier to find it; I suddenly thought of past indicators of > accuracy and switched to a case-insensitive grep. > > That message means that the call to OpenSSL's SSL_write() failed and > that the error code subsequently extracted from OpenSSL was unusual > enough that it wasn't specially handled in the Exim code. Exim reports > what the error code was. > > In this case, assuming that the error codes haven't been significantly > changed between whichever version of OpenSSL you have and the version I > have (0.9.8d), error code 5 means SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL, so there was an > underlying system call problem. Exim doesn't go into it any deeper. > > You'd need to provide more details, such as context, instead of just > that to know what's going on. I suspect that something is dropping the > TCP connection abruptly without doing a TLS shutdown; but without > knowing the context there's no way to know that; I give it just over > even odds that it is this cause. > > -Phil > >
Phil, thanks for your help on this. Here's what's on my logs. For what it's worth seems to have started on May 9 and 7:30 am. Looked in the yum logs thinking it might have been an upgrade but no upgrades at that time. 2007-05-11 00:07:45 1HmPE8-0008OU-V1 SSL_write error 5 2007-05-11 00:07:45 1HmPE8-0008OU-V1 TLS error (SSL_write): error:1409F07F:SSL routines:SSL3_WRITE_PENDING:bad write retry 2007-05-11 00:07:45 1HmPE8-0008OU-V1 SSL_write error 5 2007-05-11 00:07:45 1HmPE8-0008OU-V1 TLS error (SSL_write): error:1409F07F:SSL routines:SSL3_WRITE_PENDING:bad write retry 2007-05-11 00:07:45 1HmPE8-0008OU-V1 SSL_write error 5 2007-05-11 00:07:45 1HmPE8-0008OU-V1 TLS error (SSL_write): error:1409F07F:SSL routines:SSL3_WRITE_PENDING:bad write retry 2007-05-11 00:07:45 1HmPE8-0008OU-V1 SSL_write error 5 2007-05-11 00:07:45 1HmPE8-0008OU-V1 TLS error (SSL_write): error:1409F07F:SSL routines:SSL3_WRITE_PENDING:bad write retry 2007-05-11 00:07:45 1HmPE8-0008OU-V1 SSL_write error 5 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
