----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 2:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Heavy traffic
> I guess that would help, wouldn't it? :)
just a tad yes :)
>
> Here's a few extracted lines (there's too many of them for me to paste the
> entire log):
> --snip--
> 2001-05-31 12:27:54 155VIg-00051X-01 failed to open database lock file
/var
> /spool/exim/db/retry.lockfile: Permission denied (euid=80 egid=80)
This is your problem, I assume euid is ur exim user, does that uid have
read/write permissions to those files/dirs? or any parent dirs?
>
> I think this one is irrelevant:
> --snip--
> 2001-05-31 12:27:57 155VIi-00051X-05 SMTP error from remote mailer afte
> r initial connection: host mail.x.com [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]: 421 x.x.com: Too
> many concurrent SMTP connections; please try again later.
> --snip--
not really it means ur emails will be temp rejected coz ur making to many
connections to the server, docs show how to change this.
> Hundreds of those lines...also received this in the panic log, but I don't
> think it's related (it happened earlier on in the day and it happens every
> once in awhile):
> --snip--
> 2001-05-31 08:12:31 155RJW-00046q-09 TCP service "smtp" not found
go into /etc/services or where ever it is located on ur box and add a line
that says
smtp 25/tcp mail
HTH
cya
Andrew
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The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
