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Author: Harisha K.R.
Date:  
To: exim-users@exim.org
Subject: [Exim] Increase in Exim daemons whenever there is new SMTP attempt
Hi,

From 3 days I'm faving one issue!!

Mine is :
[root@exim exim]# exim -bV
Exim version 4.30 #1 built 27-Mar-2004 15:29:23
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2003
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.0.14: (November 18, 2001)
Support for: iconv() OpenSSL
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch dbm dmbnz mysql
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir autoreply pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Contains exiscan-acl patch revision 16 (c) Tom Kistner
[http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/]
Configuration file is /etc/exim/exim.conf

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All of sudden the no. of daeomons increases to some random number..

Currently it is
# ps -ef|grep exim
mailnull  2492     1  0 14:08 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q15m
mailnull  2496  2492  0 14:08 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q15m
root      2528  2103  0 14:14 pts/2    00:00:00 grep exim
[root@exim exim]#


Whenever there is a SMTP attempt to server, the no. of daemons keeps on
increasing!
Afte sometime it would be like this:

# ps -ef|grep exim
mailnull  2492     1  0 14:08 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q15m
mailnull  2496  2492  0 14:08 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q15m
mailnull  2535  2492  1 14:15 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q15m
root      2538  2103  1 14:15 pts/2    00:00:00 grep exim
[root@exim exim]#


WHAT IS THE CAUSE FOR THIS !!

# more /var/log/exim/main.log
2004-07-10 14:05:17 exim 4.30 daemon started: pid=2437, -q15m, listening
for SMTP on port 25 (IPv4)
2004-07-10 14:05:17 Start queue run: pid=2440
2004-07-10 14:05:17 End queue run: pid=2440
2004-07-10 14:06:59 1BjDKo-0000dT-Ee SMTP connection from (tomy)
[202.144.44.90] closed after SIGTERM
2004-07-10 14:06:59 1BjDLP-0000dY-DR SMTP connection from (tomy)
[202.144.44.90] closed after SIGTERM


Kindly guide me
Thanks
Hari