In message
<Pine.SOL.4.44.0207101543040.20364-100000@???>, Philip
Hazel <ph10@???> writes
>On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Michael Collin Nielsen wrote:
>
>> Ie, if the exim proces is not a listening daemon, then a pid-file will
>> never be written.
>
>Ooops. Sorry. My apologies. I had a thinko and was talking nonsense again.
>
>> In my case using the command above the exim proces does not listen,
>> therefore it will never create a pid-file.
>>
>> Is this intentional ?
>
>It was intentional that daemons without -bd shouldn't write pid files by
>default (because -q-only daemons are 'anomalous').
>
>I clearly overlooked this when I later added the -oP option. It
>certainly seems right that if you specify -oP, it should override all
>the defaults and force a pid file write.
>
>I'll fix it for the next release - hopefully that will be out within the
>next two weeks. I'm just doing final tidying and getting the
>documentation updated.
I am now running the 4.10 release, thanks & I now get all my pid files
created.
That is, for my mailscanner configuration under Solaris 8 I run
something like:
exim -bd
exim -C config-outgoing -oP exim.2.pid -q15m
However, when I run exiwhat I only see data for the first one. Is that
right?
# ps -e |grep exim
14613 ? 0:00 exim-4.1
14617 ? 0:00 exim-4.1
# exiwhat
14613 daemon: no queue runs, listening for SMTP
#
Regards
--
Dave English,
Client Software Development, Thus PLC,
Dorking Business Park, DORKING, Surrey, UK. RH4 1HJ
http://www.thus.net
