If you are running a custom kernel, you need to remove the rmmod cron
job. I think it runs every 10 seconds to remove unused modules. If you
didn't compile with module support, it generates an error message every
10 seconds. You should be getting a flood of error messages to your root
amail account (or wherever you root alias points to). I suspect this may
be killing the machine (although it didn't kill postfix on a 500
Celeron, it just flooded my inbox)
Buchan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hm, Exim is written as single file according to its documetation. There seem to
> be no modules there. We had exim running on a Sparc under RH 6.1 before and it
> was OK (Well, ist locked up every two month, but there were much more services
> running on it :-).
>
> The modules file in /proc is empty. The command lsmod shows no loaded modules.
> NIC and EIDE is permanently compiled into the kernel. There should be nothing
> to load so.
>
> Michael
>
> > It looks like Exim may have a module that isn't autologging.... It gets
> > removed by rmmod (every ten minutes it runs), then it is needed.
> >
> > Try
> >
> > cat /proc/modules
> >
> > to the list and perhaps it will ring a bell for someone.
> >
> > Civileme
>
> On 22 Jan 01, at 9:55, civileme wrote:
>
> > On Monday 22 January 2001 09:10, you wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > I have a Intel 500 MHz Celeron (Apollo Chipset) with 128 MB RAM and a 20 GB
> > > EIDE Hardisk (IBM-DJNA-352500) running as mailserver. I use Mandrake 7.2 as
> > > operating system and Exim 3.20 as MTA. There are no other services running on
> > > the system else the required system-services, sshd and exim.
> > >
> > > The system seems to work fine. there are no hints of problems in the
> > > log-files as far as I can see. But approximately every 3 days the system
> > > locks up. The harddisk light burns, disk is spinning, no console or network
> > > service is available anymore.
> > >
> > > In all log-files you find @@@@@@... Further down you'll find a part of
> > > /var/log/messages to explain what I mean.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have an idea what could cause this problem?
> > > I'd appreciate any help.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Michael
> > >
> > > Jan 19 13:13:26 apollo PAM_unix[2975]: (system-auth) session closed for
> > > user root Jan 19 13:13:26 apollo kernel: Packet log: input ACCEPT eth0
> > > PROTO=6 62.16.146.51:62956 62.16.146.50:22 L=40 S=0x10 I=59 5 F=0x0000
> > > T=255 (#9) Jan 19 13:20:00 apollo CROND[4455]: (root) CMD ( /sbin/rmmod -as)
> > > Jan 19 13:30:00 apollo CROND[4547]: (root) CMD ( /sbin/rmmod -as)
> > > ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^
> > >@^@^@ ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@Jan 19
> > > 13:49:07 apollo syslogd 1.4-0: restart. Jan 19 13:49:07 apollo syslog:
> > > syslogd startup succeeded Jan 19 13:49:07 apollo syslog: klogd startup
> > > succeeded
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