On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:26:33AM -0500, Scott Courtney wrote:
> Well, whaddya know! I never realized it was a shell script; figured it was
> compiled C code (never had occasion to look at its source, so......).
>
> I wonder if the key is in this comment from the source code:
>
> # Shell script for seeing what the exim processes are doing. It gets rid
> # of the old process log, then sends SIGUSR1 to all exim processes to get
> # them to write their state to the log. Then it displays the contents of
> # the log.
>
> Could it be that the Exim process responding to SIGUSR1 writes out a console
> message directly, rather than those messages coming from exiwhat itself? Is
> this something that might be distro-dependent? (RH 8 is used in this instance.)
Have a look at syslog's config, see what it's putting out to the
console.
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