Juergen Weiss wrote:
> 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).
What you are seeing is probably a bug in Suse's OpenSSH package which
incorrectly masks signals. When you restart Exim on a SSH shell, it
won't get SIGALRM any more.
To confirm, restart Exim on a regular console. It should then work.
See:
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-Dec/2628.html
/tom