Auteur: Tim Jackson Date: À: exim-users Sujet: Re: [exim] exim listens on http port
Juhasz Peter Karoly wrote:
> today when i restarted my apache it couldn't bint to https and http
> ports, i found out that exim listens on that ports, after i killed the
> process i could start apache and everything worked fine. but is still
> don't know what was it. i found a thread on exim-users about the same
> thing but didn't found the cause / solution.
I believe it happens when there are exim child processes spawned from
Apache, and you then kill Apache. This happens e.g. if you have perl or
php scripts that call "/usr/bin/sendmail" or similar to send mail, and
those child processes are still running when you kill the webserver.
Not being a UNIX networking expert I don't really understand why those
child processes end up being "bound" to the Apache ports (they're not
really listening on them in any meaningful sense), but that's what seems
to happen.