Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Adam Stephens wrote:
>
>   
>> We have a mailstore  which accepts mail via SMTP and delivers it to 
>> Cyrus IMAP using the LMTP driver. The Exim version is 4.63 and it's 
>> started like this:
>> exim -bd &
>> exim -q5m &
>>     
>
> As a matter of interest, why not
>
>   exim -bd -q15m
>   
> ? That is, why two daemons instead of one? (And you don't need the '&'
> when starting a daemon; it disconnects itself from the terminal unless
> debugging is turned on.)
>
>   
We usually do start a single daemon; the start script was changed on 
this particular box because one of my colleagues wanted to be able to 
stop the listener and queue runner processes separately.


>> We rebooted this server last week and exim failed to start up. It logged 
>> this:
>>
>> 2007-01-02 17:52:57 exim 4.63 daemon started: pid=524, no queue at 
>> startupruns, listening for SMTP on port 25 (IPv4)
>> 2007-01-02 17:52:57 exim 4.63 daemon started: pid=525, -q5m, not 
>> listening for SMTP
>> 2007-01-02 17:52:58 1H1gZk-000154-44 == 
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=local_cyrus_user 
>> T=local_cyrus_deliver defer (-1): Failed to connect to socket 
>> /var/cyrus/imap/socket/lmtp for local_cyrus_deliver transport: 
>> Connection refused
>> 2007-01-02 17:53:04 queue run: process 563 crashed with signal 15 while 
>> delivering 1H1ga7-000187-7q
>>
>> Both exim processes die, and nothing further is logged until the server 
>> is restarted.
>>     
>
> If you can reproduce the effect, try adding -d to the exim commands to 
> get debugging output (written to stderr). Without more information, 
> there's not much more to say.
>   
OK, thanks. I'll try to reproduce the problem on one of our test systems.

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Adam Stephens
Network Specialist - Email & DNS
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