On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Michael Collin Nielsen wrote:
> However the other exim proces, that does the delevery, is started using:
> /pack/exim-4.05/bin/exim -C /etc/eximmail/exim_outgoing.conf -q30m
>
> Using this setup only the first exim proces creates a pid-file (in
Exim 3 tried to be clever with daemon pids, and got itself into a
tangle. I made things much simpler in Exim 4.
> Is this a bug or a feature or can I give exim som option that forces it
Feature.
> "When a listening daemon is started without the use of -oX (that is,
> without overriding the normal configuration), it writes its process id to
> a file called exim-daemon.pid in Exim's spool directory."
>
> That might give me a clue as to why the file is not created, however I
> really would like to have it :-)
>
> Any advice ?
Read the NewStuff file as well as the manual. :-) The following change
was made for Exim 4.01:
2. There is a new command line option -oP which allows the pid file path to
be specified on the command line. The rules for deciding whether an Exim
daemon should write a pid file have been changed and are now as follows:
. A pid file is not written unless the -bd option is used (that is, daemons
created with -q that don't do SMTP listening are esoteric beasts that
don't count).
. A pid file is not written when -oX is used to override the SMTP port or
the interfaces, unless -oP is used to specify a path explicitly.
(I'll be updating the manual for the next release.)
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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