> Greetings
>
> Just joined the list here and thought I should introduce myself. My
> name is Richie Schut. I am an owner of a small multimedia company. As
> the owner I have my hands in all parts of the business. Recently I have
> found a need to expand my knowledge of linux servers, the command line,
> and specifically exim.
>
> I am working with a cPanel server, and have in the last few days had to
> restart exim a number of times. What are the steps you recommend taking
> to determine the cause of exim crashing? I am sure that the first thing
> you do is check the log files. But what are you looking for? Which log
> file?
>
> Thanks for the help.
> Richie
>
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Well for one, I would check any aggregated logs cPanel writes as well as the system logs if the daemon is completely crapping out and I would assume those would get stashed in /var/log/ and get named appropriately.
Otherwise exim should have 3 basic log sets:
exim_mainlog - main log file - I believe aggregates everything
exim_paniclog - might be a good place to start as its specifically panic events during runtime
exim_rejectlog - delivery rejects, ACL validation failures, etc.
Thanks,
James
