Exim not restarting

tbartolucci · 08-03-2004, 04:53 PM

I am running Debin 2.4.2 with exim 3.36. Everything was running fine this morning when I got a complaint that they could send mail but weren't receiving any mail. So I went to restart Exim. It will not restart.

/etc/init.d/exim restart -- does nothing
/etc/init.d/exim start -- does nothing

running an strace doesn't seem to show any problems. But when I run the daemon manually

/usr/lib/exim/exim3 -- -bd -q30m
it hangs.

Any thoughts?

foo_bar_foo · 08-03-2004, 09:16 PM

that is odd
i guess check the logs first
mine are in
/var/spool/exim/log

i guess when something stops responding try checking it in gSystemMonitor or something and see what it's status is
possibly try to kill it off
killall -HUP exim

tbartolucci · 08-04-2004, 08:15 AM

Its fixed, the error was:

fork(): Resource not available

What I could find on that was that fork gives that error when it runs out of virtual memory, but I had 1.5GB of VM free. So I rebooted and its working. VM must have been corrupted in some way.