Re: [exim] Closed after SIGTERM ?

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Author: Marc Perkel
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To: 'exim-users@exim.org'
Subject: Re: [exim] Closed after SIGTERM ?


Ted Cooper wrote:
> Marc Perkel wrote:
>
>> I have one server that is generating a lot of "closed after SIGTERM"
>> messages. What does this mean?
>>
>
> I had the same problem, however I was never able to locate the actual
> cause of the signal, so I could only assume it was part of the kernel or
> a misdirected signal from exim. It happened rarely enough that couldn't
> track it down even after adding line after line of debugging printfs,
> and it never happened when I was running just the one debugging process.
>
> It was always caused when I used ${run with an external program to do
> some sort of processing for me so I killed off the idea and now I do all
> my external processing in a daemon that listens on a socket (using a CLI
> PHP script - ha!). That removed the problem so I never looked into any
> further.
>
> Not much of a help I know, but that's all I've got for SIGTERMs and I'm
> pretty sure you've mentioned before that you use ${run in your setup.
>
> Ted.
>


Thanks for the feedback Ted. I'm running this under OpenZV and I'm
wondering if it related to that. Might be tricky to track down as it
works most of the time.