Theres another strange behavior ... The queue runner works right after
reboot, at every minute the queue runner starts and ends (-q1m).
If i stop exim and start again, the queue runner is not getting started
anymore (except the first one).
Looks like that exim is locking some file and will not free it even if i
shut down exim.
Anyone got an idea how to trace this ?
Juergen
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Auftrag von Ted Cooper
Gesendet: Montag, 4. Dezember 2006 00:45
An: Juergen Weiss
Cc: exim-users@???
Betreff: Re: [exim] Exim is not running the queue runner because of some
linux update
Juergen Weiss wrote:
> Nothing happens after 60 seconds.
> I have checked this already.
>
> The queue runner just will not start anymore.
>
> Earlier logfiles, at the time it still worked, showing "Start queue
> run", "End queue run" - every 30 minutes (was default on my system).
> Since a few weeks it (exactly since my last online-updates), it isnt
> coming up after the first run/finish.
Ok that really does sound like a large, OS dependent bug. To figure that
out, someone (not me... arhh! no time) would need to know pretty much every
single detail about your system, patches and updates. Try checking the
changelog for anything you've updated lately to see if they have done
anything to signals, sleep, or alarms. I'd really have to look at how exim
implements the queue runner timer to give a better idea at what to look for.
However, if you want a temporary fix that could pass as a permanent one,
just run exim with "exim -bd" and add a crontab entry for the queue runner.
*/30 * * * * /usr/bin/exim -q 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
This will start a queue runner every 30 minutes and never tell you if it's
broken ;) If you remove the "1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null" it will email any
output from the command to root@hostname.
Finding the source of that bug could be of more use though, as I doubt exim
is the only process experiencing problems.
Ted.
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