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Re: Exim misconfiguration ?



Fred <frederic.bonnard@cirad.fr> writes:

>> Fred <frederic.bonnard@cirad.fr> writes:
>> 
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am currently using exim on my laptop for local delivery and sending
>> > mails. I'm also using fetchmail and procmail.
>> > After the we, when I connect to the internet, the system retrieves many
>> > mails, and exim is launched thousand times.
>> > So that more than 1500 process ( 2/3 exim and 1/3 procmail) are running
>> > and taking all the resources ; I even lose my read/write access to
>> > files!
>> > After restarting, I have to wait the number of exim process to decrease.
>> > Is there a way to configure exim's behaviour differently ( for ex. to
>> > start only one process ) ?
>> 
>> If you run exim as a daemon rather than from /etc/inetd.conf (by
>> removing the smtp line from this file), that should help, I think.
>
> I have removed exim from inetd.conf, and there are still many exim
> process running....

Did you restart inetd and exim?

# /etc/init.d/inetd restart
# /etc/init.d/exim restart

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