Re: [exim] intro & trouble shooting

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Auteur: Mike Sprague
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Aan: exim-users
Onderwerp: Re: [exim] intro & trouble shooting
Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
> Richie Schut <r@???> (Di 26 Jan 2010 08:16:18 CET):
> (…)
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> Try
>
>     exim -bP log_file_path

>
> and substitute the %s you find with main, reject, and panic. This will
> name the three log files.
>
> (I'm no cPanel user, so it might be, that cPanel uses some more
> sophisticated logging, or logs via syslog.


cPanel does have some custom configuration to make exim work correctly
in its framework. I would suggest checking out the cPanel forums too
but as others have suggested, checking out the logs first is always a
good thing; especially paniclog in your situation.

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Michael F. Sprague
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