From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 16:55:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63EBF16A4CE; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:55:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc4-cdif3-6-1-cust116.cdif.cable.ntl.com [82.23.41.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D496F43D2F; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:55:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.44 (FreeBSD)) id 1D00Xn-000MOO-Sm; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:54:55 +0000 Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:54:55 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Aaron Dalton Message-ID: <20050212165455.GJ51102@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Aaron Dalton , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <420E2038.7060503@daltons.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="q5r20fdKX+PFtYHw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <420E2038.7060503@daltons.ca> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.7i Sender: Ceri Davies cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with Exim X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:55:03 -0000 --q5r20fdKX+PFtYHw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 08:26:48AM -0700, Aaron Dalton wrote: > Since upgrading to the latest exim (4.44?) I will occasionally notice I= =20 > am not receiving mail. I will check the server (ps -ax | grep 'exim')=20 > and find that there are dozens of exim processes running (exim -bd=20 > -q30m). I will do 'exim.sh stop' but that only kills the initial=20 > process and not the others. If I manually kill all the stray processes,= =20 > as soon as I start receiving mail new ones will appear. If I reboot,=20 > then everything works fine for about 24 hours then it starts to happen=20 > again. Has anybody else had this happen or does anybody know what might= =20 > be causing the problem? I do run Exim with Clamav and I keep all my=20 > ports updated almost daily. That's how exim works, pretty much. Next time it happens, run the exiwhat script as root and those processes will all report on what they are doing. Ceri --=20 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) --q5r20fdKX+PFtYHw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCDjTfocfcwTS3JF8RAoV2AJwPuPaHAhnrWgIdpDLSZ4DavLgfxwCguKd7 9imTDU/jQ5/q+29zHiRFoG8= =tDta -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --q5r20fdKX+PFtYHw--