On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, exim wrote:
> > Odd that it can find 1 and 2 but not 3. Anything obviously different in
> > the hosts file?
>
> There isn't as we use a common hosts file for all Sun boxen.
>
> $ grep mailrelay /etc/inet/hosts
> 10.93.227.166 mailrelay1 vmcrelay01
> 10.93.227.167 mailrelay2 vmcrelay02
> 10.93.246.44 mailrelay3 vmcrelay03
> 10.93.246.45 mailrelay4 vmcrelay04
Very odd then! ... but it suggests that you might do a check to see
that the file is indeed identical on all your Suns. Just in case your
distribution mechanism is broken...
> But, umm... what does full debugging mean?
> *he RTFMs* ahhh "-d+all"
Yes, but usually -d is enough for this purpose. (And if you do +all, you
might as well do -d+all-memory, because memory management stuff gets in
the way.)
> I take it doesn't then fork into the background when specified with
> -bd -q20m for example.
It doesn't. You can kill such a daemon with ^C. Debug output goes to
stderr - and can be quite voluminous on a daemon, of course...
Philip
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