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. -- -------------------------------- Adam Stephens Network Specialist - Email & DNS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ## 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/
