Re: [Exim] Exim-4.05 on RedHat 7.3 (i386)

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Michael J. Tubby B.Sc. (Hons) G8TIC
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim-4.05 on RedHat 7.3 (i386)
On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Michael J. Tubby B.Sc. (Hons) G8TIC wrote:

> it runs fine and tells me what it would do with various addresses,
> does dns lookups, etc. just as expected. However, when I run it with:
>
>     exim -bd -q15m

>
> it just vanishes from the system without even writing a log entry
> anywhere, like its immediately calling exit(0).


A Guess: You have set log_file_path to come non-default path. Check that
the user "exim" is able to write to that directory. (It should be
complaining on syslog if it can't.) Using -d should also tell you this.

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