Bug#289607: (no subject)

[Rory Campbell-Lange]

Package: exim4
Version: 4.34-8
Severity: important


I am seeing lots of exim4 processes in the following state:

    exim4      6304 Debian-exim    0u  IPv4 655292       TCP myserver:smtp->mail2.myisp.net:49602 (CLOSE_WAIT)
    exim4      6304 Debian-exim    2u  IPv4 655292       TCP myserver:smtp->mail2.myisp.net:49602 (CLOSE_WAIT)
    exim4      6304 Debian-exim    3u  IPv4 655313       UDP myserver:35888->ns1.myisp.net:domain

Also lots of processes are running:

    ....
    Debian-   6162  0.0  0.2  8488 2556 ?        Ss   13:06   0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
    Debian-   6292  0.0  0.2  8500 2692 ?        S    13:11   0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
    Debian-   6304  0.0  0.2  8500 2692 ?        S    13:12   0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
    Debian-   6399  0.0  0.2  8500 2692 ?        S    13:35   0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
    ....

If left all smtp connections are saturated over time, as the number of
exim processes increases incrementally.

After issuing an /etc/init.d/exim4 stop there are still lots of exim4
processes running, which have to be killed manually.

Thanks
Rory


-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.34 #1 built 20-Nov-2004 11:32:14
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2004
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.2.9: (May 26, 2004)
Support for: iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl GnuTLS
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch ldap ldapdn ldapm mysql nis nis0 passwd pgsql
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral iplookup manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Contains exiscan-acl patch revision 21 (c) Tom Kistner [http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/]
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'

dc_eximconfig_configtype='internet'
dc_other_hostnames='host0406:host0406.cammail.net:bronwenmanby.net:demo.ideaboard.org:trial.ideaboard.org:ideaboard.org:brand.ideaboard.org:learning.ideaboard.org:ultralab.ideaboard.org:basilisk.co.uk:ha-usa.com:7by6.com:cmpcommunications.com:clarkemulderpurdie.com:story-store.com:o-sb.co.uk'
dc_local_interfaces=''
dc_readhost=''
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
#dc_relay_nets='193.35.129.161:213.78.150.90:62.254.146.179:194.247.51.219:*.dialup.zetnet.co.uk:*.orange.co.uk'
dc_relay_nets='*.orange.co.uk'
dc_smarthost=''

CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='true'
dc_hide_mailname=''

# MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT = 20M
mailname:campbell-lange.net

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)

Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii  exim4-base                    4.34-8     EXperimental Internal Mailer -- a 
ii  exim4-daemon-heavy            4.34-8     Exim (v4) with extended features, 

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