Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
