If the process is there, and running, but not responding, attach truss
or strace to the process (truss -p <pid>). Couple of reasons to try
this: i've seen this kickstart processes on Solaris before, and it might
give you a better idea as to why it's hung (check the output for a rough
idea of what it's trying to do - but you may need to know a bit of
systems programming to understand it)
regards,
richard.
Paul Miles wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I'm still suffering from the strange exim behaviour.
>
>Just to recap, periodically (every couple of days or so), exim just stops
>responding on port 25.
>
>ie.
>av-relay1:/var/spool/exim/log # telnet 127.0.0.1 25
>Trying 127.0.0.1...
>Connected to 127.0.0.1.
>Escape character is '^]'.
>^]
>telnet> quit
>
>
>The really odd thing is that if I restart or HUP exim, it all works fine
>(for another couple of days.)
>
>Following some advice, I tried running exim in debug mode, and to my
>untrained eye, it all looks to be working normally.
>
>ie.
>
>av-relay1:/var/spool/exim/log # /usr/exim/bin/exim -d9 -bh 127.0.0.1
>Exim version 3.33 debug level 9 uid=0 gid=0
>Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: DB 2.4.14: (6/2/98)
>Caller is an admin user
>Caller is a trusted user
>originator: uid=0 gid=0 login=root name=root
>sender address = root@???
>sender_fullhost = [127.0.0.1]
>sender_rcvhost = [127.0.0.1]
>
>**** SMTP testing session as if from host 127.0.0.1
>**** Not for real!
>
>host in host_lookup? no (option unset)
>host in host_reject? no (option unset)
>host in host_reject_recipients? no (option unset)
>host in sender_unqualified_hosts? no (option unset)
>host in receiver_unqualified_hosts? no (option unset)
>host in helo_verify? no (option unset)
>host in helo_accept_junk_hosts? no (option unset)
>SMTP>> 220 av-relay1.allsecurenet.com ESMTP Exim 3.33 #1 Tue, 23 Oct 2001
>11:05:
>43 +0100
>220 av-relay1.allsecurenet.com ESMTP Exim 3.33 #1 Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:05:43
>+010
>
>At the moment I'm having to HUP exim once a night via crontab to ensure the
>service doesn't go down. Does anybody have any more ideas????
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Paul Miles
>All Secure Networks
>
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>
>
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