Hi,
from time to time after starting exim it leaves a zombie process. This
zombie seems to remain from the queue run which is launched at start time.
Exim is started with the following command:
/usr/sbin/exim -bd -q30m -oP /var/run/exim/exim.pid
System is Debian woody with kernel 2.4.20.
Example process listing:
exim 553 0.0 0.2 4096 1468 ? S 12:41 0:00 [exim]
root 554 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 12:41 0:00 [exim
<defunct>]
From the exim mainlog:
2003-06-24 12:41:30 exim 4.20 daemon started: pid=553, -q30m,
listening for SMTP on [172.16.2.27]:25 [62.117.0.27]:25
2003-06-24 12:41:30 Start queue run: pid=554
2003-06-24 12:41:30 End queue run: pid=554
The zombie disappears if the parent process gets a connection via the
smtp port.
If there is no smtp connection sometimes the zombie can be ended by
issueing a exim -q or to give exim a kill -HUP. But these methods are
not always successful.
Is this a behaviour which can be ignored?
Regards,
Philipp
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Philipp Sacha
mailto:psacha@blue-cable.net
