Re: [exim] Exim restart all 12 MINUTES in outgoing queue.

2010/9/12 Stéphane Leclerc <sleclerc@???>:
>
> I have very strange problem with Exim. If someone have a idea where to look
> or can help.
> Exim restart all 12 MINUTES in outgoing queue log.
>
> /var/log/exim4_outgoing/mainlog
> 17:36:11 exim 4.72 daemon started: pid=7531, -q30m, not listening for SMTP
> 17:36:11 exim 4.72 daemon started: pid=7534, -q30m, not listening for SMTP
> 17:48:12 exim 4.72 daemon started: pid=9292, -q30m, not listening for SMTP
> 17:48:12 exim 4.72 daemon started: pid=9295, -q30m, not listening for SMTP
> 18:01:12 exim 4.72 daemon started: pid=11436, -q30m, not listening for SMTP
> 18:01:12 exim 4.72 daemon started: pid=11440, -q30m, not listening for SMTP
> 18:12:11 exim 4.72 daemon started: pid=13231, -q30m, not listening for SMTP
> 18:12:11 exim 4.72 daemon started: pid=13234, -q30m, not listening for SMTP
> 18:24:12 exim 4.72 daemon started: pid=14746, -q30m, not listening for SMTP
> 18:24:12 exim 4.72 daemon started: pid=14749, -q30m, not listening for SMTP
> 18:36:12 exim 4.72 daemon started: pid=16591, -q30m, not listening for SMTP
> 18:36:12 exim 4.72 daemon started: pid=16594, -q30m, not listening for SMTP

It very much looks like some cron job got installed erroneously. It
wants to restart exim every 12 hours (at noon and at midnight),
however, somebody messed up and put */12 in the minutes column instead
of the hours column.

Look in all locations that cron uses (/etc/crontab, /etc/cron.d/ and
'crontab -l -u USERNAME' where USERNAME is the user that exim runs as
and that mailscanner runs as) for something that is attempting to
restart queue runners or just plain restart exim.

Also do:
lsof -p 14749 (for example)
and see what files it has open. It really looks like you have a lot
of messages in your queue, which could be indicative of some other
underlying problem.
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