Harisha K.R. wrote:
> 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 !!
1. Don't shout
2. Sounds like you may have mixed up the 2 ways of starting Exim - if you
start from inetd (xinetd or whatever), you don't use -bd. If you start from
init.d (or your system's favourite daemon starting mechanism), you start
exim with -bd.
Maybe you're running exim from inetd, and every time you get an incoming
connection it starts a new daemon with exim -bd?
Peter
