Bug#289607: (no subject)

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2005-01-10 Rory Campbell-Lange <rory@campbell-lange.net> wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.34-8
> Severity: important


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

Strange.

>     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

What does exiwhat say?

> 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
>     ....

Are you starting exim4 bdifferent means that /etc/init.d/exim4?

e.g. Have you symlinked /usr/sbin/exim4 to /usr/sbin/exim and still
exim uninstalled but not purged so its cronjobs are still running?
dpkg -l '*exim*'

or inetd?
find /etc -type f -print0 | xargs -0r grep -l exim

> 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.
[...]

/etc/init.d/exim4 stop wil only kill the master-daemon process(es)
(smtp-listener/queue-runner) it started, open smtp deliveries will not
be killed.
               cu andreas
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