On 2010-07-07 at 09:34 +0200, Matthias Foerste wrote: > recently we had a problem with an exim installation at one of our > customers. Remote connections would just time out, while local > connections still worked. We didn't have much time to investigate, > restarted the service and could connect again. > > Afterwards we noticed some old exim processes (children of init) just > sitting there for days.
If it's a child of init, then it got reparented, perhaps when you killed the old Exim? What does "exiwhat" say? This is a tool supplied with Exim which should ask all the Exim processes what they're currently doing. -Phil -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
