Re: [exim] [Exim] Exim listening on port 80

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Subject: Re: [exim] [Exim] Exim listening on port 80
I haven't had this problem with Apache 1.3, but I have with Apache 2 and 2.2.

On Friday 06 April 2007 19:16:00 W B Hacker wrote:
> Graeme Fowler wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 18:31 +0300, Information wrote:
> >> http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20060410/msg001
> >>53.html
> >
> > And with a flourish, the answer is in the same thread: ta-da!
> >
> > http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20060410/msg0016
> >7.html
> >
> > It can happen with sendmail & postfix, as far as I can remember. Any
> > process, in fact, that is exec()'d by Apache can inherit this problem if
> > the Apache process which spawned the subprocess goes away in the
> > meantime. I used to see this quite a lot with duff PHP scripts in a
> > shared hosting environment where Apache got an 'apachectl graceful' once
> > an hour.
> >
> > Graeme
>
> (Quoting Marc Haber from the response..)
>
> "Frankly, I don't see what the Debian exim4 packages could do to remedy
> this."
>
> FWIW, "Mention it as a possibility" is about all. Lot's of folks are
> 'married' to A Patchy Server.
>
> I can't say with certainty that Xitami, Lighttpd, AolServer, thttpd, boa,
> or any of several other httpd might not also do something similar - the
> 'inheritance' issue...
>
> But they have never done so *here*, even during the several years we ran
> Drupal (PHP).
>
> There is probably a way to prevent Apache doing it as well...
>
> YMMV,
>
> Bill




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