EXIWHAT(8)



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)

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