EXIWHAT(8) System Manager's Manual EXIWHAT(8)
NAME
exiwhat - Finding out what Exim processes are doing
SYNOPSIS
exiwhat
DESCRIPTION
On operating systems that can restart a system call after receiving a
signal (most modern OS), an Exim process responds to the SIGUSR1 signal
by writing a line describing what it is doing to the file
exim-process.info in the Exim spool directory. The exiwhat script
sends the signal to all Exim processes it can find, having first emp-
tied the file. It then waits for one second to allow the Exim pro-
cesses to react before displaying the results. In order to run exiwhat
successfully you have to have sufficient privilege to send the signal
to the Exim processes, so it is normally run as root.
Unfortunately, the ps command which exiwhat uses to find Exim processes
varies in different operating systems. Not only are different options
used, but the format of the output is different. For this reason,
there are some system configuration options that configure exactly how
exiwhat works. If it doesn't seem to be working for you, check the
following compile-time options:
EXIWHAT_PS_CMD
the command for running "ps"
EXIWHAT_PS_ARG
the argument for "ps"
EXIWHAT_EGREP_ARG
the argument for "egrep" to select from "ps" output
EXIWHAT_KILL_ARG
the argument for the "kill" command
An example of typical output from exiwhat is
164 daemon: -q1h, listening on port 25
10483 running queue: waiting for 0tAycK-0002ij-00 (10492)
10492 delivering 0tAycK-0002ij-00 to mail.ref.example [10.19.42.42]
(editor@ref.example)
10592 handling incoming call from [192.168.243.242]
10628 accepting a local non-SMTP message
The first number in the output line is the process number. The third
line has been split here, in order to fit it on the page.
BUGS
This manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better groff
than us and has more experience in writing manual pages, any patches
would be greatly appreciated.
SEE ALSO
exim(8), /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/
AUTHOR
This manual page was stitched together from spec.txt by Andreas Metzler
<ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but
may be used by others).
March 26, 2003 EXIWHAT(8)