The problem is all these cron, sh, and exim3 processes are filling up my
memory (only 5000kb left) but I don't know where they are coming from. I
/etc/init.d/exim stop'ed exim and killed all the extranneous exim and cron
processes and started exim up again. Now everything seems fine. I'll keep an
eye on things and see if it happens again.
Thanks for your help.
-----Original Message-----
From: exim-users-bounces@??? [
mailto:exim-users-bounces@exim.org]On
Behalf Of Frank S. Bernhardt
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 4:56 PM
To: Chase James
Cc: exim-users@???
Subject: Re: [exim] Multiple exim Processes
Chase
The first entry is just doing a mail queue run to clear any queued e-mails.
The remaining lines clean up exim's hints files.
I'm presuming somewhere else you are starting up exim as a daemon to
listen on port 25 for incoming e-mail. Try /etc/init.d or /etc/rc2.d
(depending on your O/S). You may want to look for 'sendmail' as
sometimes the 'sendmail' executable is simply symbolically linked to exim.
Cheers.
Chase James wrote:
> I have a server running many processes. ps -A lists them repeatedly in the
> following order: exim3, cron, sh. cron.d seems to have the only relevent
> entry (exim) that contains:
>
> /etc/cron.d/exim:
>
> 08,23,38,53 8 * * * mail if [ -x /usr/lib/exim/exim3 -a -f
> /etc/exim/exim.conf]; then /usr/lib/exim/exim3 -q; fi
>
> # Tidy databases
> 13 6 * * * mail if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb ]; then
/usr/sbin/exim_tidydb
> /var/spool/exim retry >/dev/null; fi
> 17 6 * * * mail if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb ]; then
/usr/sbin/exim_tidydb
> /var/spool/exim wait-remote_smtp >/dev/null; fi
>
> I plan on upgrading, but is this exim or something else?
>
> Thanks,
> Chase
>
>
>
