reopen #396944 retitle #396944 exim4 pid file vanishing between updates, possible race? thanks
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 02:21:10PM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: > I monitored the next two or three upgrades after the problem I was > having disappeared, all went well so I removed the flag which was > causing exim to spew debugging info out during the install... a few > more upgrades later and the problem has reappeared. Exim is running, > has no pid file in /var/run/exim, there is a non-empty error log, and I > have not touched anything to do with exim4 manually (it has all been > the packages scripts triggered by upgrades). I would like to know when exactly the pid file vanishes. A possible idea would be to have a cron job running every ten minutes: #!/bin/bash LOGFILE="/var/log/exim4/pidwatch.log.$(date +%Y%m%e)" PIDDIR="/var/run/exim4" date "+%Y-%m-%e %H:%M:%S" >> $LOGFILE ls -li $PIDDIR >> $LOGFILE for file in $(ls $PIDDIR 2>/dev/null); do echo $file >> $LOGFILE head -n 2 $PIDDIR/$file >> $LOGFILE done echo -e "\n" >> $LOGFILE Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
