Re: [EXIM] What about setproctitle?

On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Paul Mansfield wrote:

> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 17:58:38 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Paul Mansfield <paulm@???>
> To: djc@???
> Subject: Re: [EXIM] What about setproctitle?
>
> On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Dave C. wrote:
>
> > First off, I it sounds like you handle a lot more mail than we do.
> > Second, I had just restarted exim becuase it died because it was unable
> > to write the processlog. There are normally up to ten or fifteen
> > running....
>
> tongue was in cheek :-)

Understood.. FYI, I have found and managed a work-around for my problem
of exim not having permission to write the processlog.

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*** exiwhat.orig    Fri Mar 13 12:57:38 1998

--- exiwhat    Fri Mar 13 12:56:44 1998
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  # Now do the job.
  
  /bin/rm -f ${log}
  if [ -f ${log} ]; then
    echo "** Failed to remove ${log}"
    exit 1
  fi
  
+ exim_user=`grep '^[      ]*exim_user' $config | sed 's/.*=[       ]*//'`
+ 
+ touch ${log}
+ 
+ chown ${exim_user} ${log}
  
  ps $ps_arg | egrep "$egrep_arg" | cut -c1-6 | sed -e "s/^/kill $kill_arg /" | sh
  
  sleep 1
  
  if [ ! -s ${log} ] ; then echo "No exim process data" ;
    else cut -c20-999 ${log} ; fi