Re: [EXIM] exim dying

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Author: me
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To: Sheldon Hearn
CC: EXIM users list
Subject: Re: [EXIM] exim dying
Hi

I am running FreeBSD, and the return from the command was 20.

I get no errors in messages file.

Iqbal

Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:06:11 +0100, me wrote:
>
> > Exim just dies, and when you try to connect to port 215, it just says
> > too many smtp connections.
>
> The messages you get about too many smtp connections indicate that your
> Exim daemon isn't dying. Possibly its children are dying. You probably
> need to show us exactly what messages you see that indicate exim's
> children are dying (perhaps a "can't fork" message in /etc/messages?).
>
> It also wouldn't hurt to let us know what operating system you're using,
> since it might have something to do with resource limits.
>
> I'm willing to hazard a guess and say that exim isn't dying at all, but
> that it's simply following instructions by limiting the number of smtp
> connections it'll manage at any given time. What do you get when you do
> this:
>
>         exim -bP |grep smtp_accept_max

>
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.


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