On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Adam Stephens wrote:
> We have a mailstore which accepts mail via SMTP and delivers it to
> Cyrus IMAP using the LMTP driver. The Exim version is 4.63 and it's
> started like this:
> exim -bd &
> exim -q5m &
As a matter of interest, why not
exim -bd -q15m
? That is, why two daemons instead of one? (And you don't need the '&'
when starting a daemon; it disconnects itself from the terminal unless
debugging is turned on.)
> We rebooted this server last week and exim failed to start up. It logged
> this:
>
> 2007-01-02 17:52:57 exim 4.63 daemon started: pid=524, no queue at
> startupruns, listening for SMTP on port 25 (IPv4)
> 2007-01-02 17:52:57 exim 4.63 daemon started: pid=525, -q5m, not
> listening for SMTP
> 2007-01-02 17:52:58 1H1gZk-000154-44 ==
> rtdjf@??? R=local_cyrus_user
> T=local_cyrus_deliver defer (-1): Failed to connect to socket
> /var/cyrus/imap/socket/lmtp for local_cyrus_deliver transport:
> Connection refused
> 2007-01-02 17:53:04 queue run: process 563 crashed with signal 15 while
> delivering 1H1ga7-000187-7q
>
> Both exim processes die, and nothing further is logged until the server
> is restarted.
If you can reproduce the effect, try adding -d to the exim commands to
get debugging output (written to stderr). Without more information,
there's not much more to say.
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service
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