Broken Pipe?

[Wytze van der Raay]

Mike Dailey wrote:
> 
> Every time the lr_vendor_cron runs at night it returns the following
> error and no report is generated:
> 
> /usr/sbin/lr_vendor_cron: line 1:  3915 Broken pipe             grep
> postfix/
> 
> What does this mean and how is it fixed?

The lr_vendor_cron script uses the parameters specified in
/etc/sysconfig/lire.d/*.cfg files to produce the requested reports.
It does this by grepping the necessary lines from the logfile and piping
this into an invocation of lr_run.
The error message suggests that the lr_run invocation for a Postfix
report failed while Postfix logfile data was still collected by the
grep. You can get more debug information for this failure in two ways:

1. at the shell level, by running (as root):
	# sh -x /usr/sbin/lr_vendor_cron daily

2. at the Lire level, by running (as root):
	# DEBUG=yes /usr/sbin/lr_vendor_cron daily

Of course you can also combine these two into:
	# DEBUG=yes sh -x /usr/sbin/lr_vendor_cron daily

to get all possible debug output. Hopefully this will give you a clue as
to what failed; if not, you might want to e-mail the output to the list
for more help.

Regards,
Wytze van der Raay



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