On 2006-10-08 09:26:35 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > For outgoing TLS exim reads from /dev/urandom which *does* drain > entropy but switches to a prng instead of blocking when there is no > more entropy.
This is strange, because it really seems to be related to the entropy. Is there a way to get more information (debugging mode...) on what exim is doing? > > Concerning the mail, it is still in the queue, but the exim4 log file > > doesn't show any error! And "exim -qff" doesn't solve the problem. > > Here are the contents of /var/log/exim4/mainlog: > > [...] > > 2006-10-08 00:22:13 1GWKYf-00043q-HN <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=lefevre P=local > > S=778 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 2006-10-08 00:22:23 Start queue run: pid=15622 > > 2006-10-08 00:22:23 1GWKYf-00043q-HN Spool file is locked (another process > > is handling this message) > [...] > > What does exiwhat say? ay:/home/lefevre# exiwhat 2165 daemon: -q5m, listening for SMTP on [127.0.0.1]:25 15602 delivering 1GWt31-00043d-2z: waiting for a remote delivery subprocess to finish 15604 delivering 1GWt31-00043d-2z to pilet.ens-lyon.fr [140.77.167.16] ([EMAIL PROTECTED], ...) ay:/home/lefevre# ps -aef|grep exim 108 2165 1 0 Oct07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q5m root 15602 1 0 13:11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc 1GWt31-00043d-2z 108 15604 15602 0 13:11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc 1GWt31-00043d-2z root 15687 15648 0 13:14 pts/5 00:00:00 grep exim -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)