Bug 782827 - /var/run/exim.pid missing
Summary: /var/run/exim.pid missing
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: exim
Version: el6
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
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Assignee: Jaroslav Škarvada
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-01-18 16:07 UTC by Christopher Wood
Modified: 2016-09-08 13:38 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-09-08 13:38:01 UTC
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Description Christopher Wood 2012-01-18 16:07:02 UTC
Description of problem:

There's no pid file (/var/run/exim.pid)  created in /var/run like the init script promises.

This means, among other things, that I can't conveniently monitor this process with monit.




Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


exim-4.72-2.el6.i686

# yum info exim
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Installed Packages
Name       : exim
Arch       : i686
Version    : 4.72
Release    : 2.el6
Size       : 3.7 M
Repo       : installed
From repo  : epel
Summary    : The exim mail transfer agent
URL        : http://www.exim.org/
License    : GPLv2+



How reproducible:

Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install exim
2. /etc/init.d/exim start
3. ls /var/run/exim.pid

  
Actual results:

No /var/run/exim.pid created.

Expected results:

I get /var/run/exim.pid created.


Additional info:

n/a

Comment 1 Jaroslav Škarvada 2012-04-10 13:43:05 UTC
I cannot reproduce (on x86_64, but I will retry on i686 later). Did you switch off the sendmail and switched to exim through alternatives?

My reproducer:
# rpm -q exim
exim-4.72-2.el6.x86_64

# service sendmail stop

# alternatives --config mta
[selected exim]

# service exim start

# cat /var/run/exim.pid 
2726

# pgrep -l exim
2726 exim

Comment 2 Jaroslav Škarvada 2012-04-10 15:37:23 UTC
Also same result (i.e. not able to reproduce) on another cleanly installed 32 bit machine.

Comment 3 Ondrej Vasik 2016-09-08 13:38:01 UTC
Let's close this insufficient data, no info after more than 4 years...


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