On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 11:22 -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote: > Jethro R Binks wrote: > > exception for my Nagios host. In acl_smtp_connect, but above the delay, I > > have: > > Looks like nagios is porrly behaved too then. You might want look into > monit to monitor things such as smtp. Not only will it be able to > restart services if they appear down but you can tune it's time out so > it won't be confused by a slow to connect smtp session.
you can tune the timeout of Nagios, too, but what's the point? monit is nice, but I can't recall seeing a situation where restarting Exim will solve the problem -- when Exim fails, manual intervention is typically needed (e.g., full disk, hammered by requests, huge queue, etc.) -- regards, Kjetil T. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
