I'm sending this email not because anyone on this list right now probably
cares, but I want the answer in the archives to maybe save someone in the
future some time.
The solution to the problem below is setting
"exim_path = /usr/lib/sendmail" in the general section of the configure
file. Exim then uses this path to reexec during HUPs, and the process
table holds what I expect to see.
As an amusing aside, I had come to terms with not having sendmail in the
process table, and only found this option when I was tearing down a smail
installation and noticed "smail = /usr/lib/sendmail" in the config file.
I went looking for something similar in the exim docs and lo and behold
there it was.
Thanks for anticipating every need I've had so far, Philip. =)
--John
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, John Jetmore wrote:
>
> > Short question: Is there any case in which exim re-spawns, calling itself
> > w/ its true name rather than what it was called with originally?
>
> Yes. Whenever it re-execs itself.
>
> > running exim, the MTA was showing up in the process list as
> > "/wcs/exim/bin/exim -bd -q30m" instead of "/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q30m".
>
> For the daemon, that will happen if you HUP it.
>
> > I'm expecting answer of no, I just want to make sure I have my bases
> > covered.
>
> Sorry. :-(
>
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> ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
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