Re: [Exim] exim dies silently

> > Run exim inside a wrapper script to capture any output to stderr and stdout
> > when it does. RestartWrapper from open system consultants is one that comes
> > to mind

In case that does not help and the machine is not under heavy load, then
attach strace to the running daemon, piping its output to tail -1000
and saving that in a file. It causes way more load, but that way you
know the last 1000 system calls before the crash, no matter how long it
stays up, and it won't fill your disk.

Another option is to attach gdb with its input from a file. Ignore
SIGPIPE in gdb, attach to the process and output a backtrace upon
returning from the attached process. Yet another option would be running
the gdb session under screen(1).

Michael