[Pkg-exim4-users] multiple copies of exim4 running

[Johann Spies]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:00:53AM +0000, Gerard Hooton wrote:
> when I run exiwhat I get :-
> 
> scoil:~# exiwhat          
>  1877 daemon: -q30m, listening for SMTP on [87.33.113.4]:25

Which shows exim is not doing much at the moment.

> When I dp ps I get :-

too many instances of the daemon especially when it is apparently not
handling any messages.

I am not sure why but that was not ther reason for your original 'too
many connections' message.

As far as I know exim it should kill the idle sub-processes.  

Do you use any other processes that exim may be waiting for to finish
like virus or spam scanning?

Regards
Johann

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