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Posted by Jaded03, 11-15-2007, 08:34 PM
Hi, We're on a VPS and lately we've been getting a few 'exim has failed...A restart was attempted automagicly.' messages. Support indicated that we're hitting our limits and suggested that we move to a bigger package or remove accounts. I only have 2 active sites on this account. We're new at this and don't know if there's anything else we can do. Does anyone know what could be causing exim to fail? What should we be looking for to give us any idea of what's going on. Thanks in advance.
Posted by david510, 11-15-2007, 09:00 PM
First make sure the exim is failing, from the log files. If you dont see anything specific, restart the chkservd service. service chkservd restart
Posted by Jaded03, 11-15-2007, 09:59 PM
Thanks for the quick reply. Please pardon my ignorance but how do we check the logs?
Posted by brianv, 11-15-2007, 10:53 PM
The exim logs are generally located in /var/log/exim/ and you can view them via SSH to the server, or download them I suppose.
Posted by david510, 11-15-2007, 11:05 PM
Jaded03, I believe you have a cpanel server. Check the log files at /var/log/exim_mainlog /var/log/exim_paniclog
Posted by acmegeek, 11-16-2007, 03:56 PM
I too am getting the Exim failed error message, a lot! I have updated, restarted, pretty much everything. What should I look for in the logs, specifically? Thanks! acmegeek
Posted by david510, 11-16-2007, 04:53 PM
First try below. service chkservd restart Check in logs for exim restart lines.
Posted by dfnet, 11-29-2007, 04:11 PM
We have a VPS1 account at Liquid Web ($60/month). Below I have copied just the most recent series of failure notices (clamd, cpsrvd, exim, ftpd, mysql, pop, spamd). We tend to receive these by e-mail on a fairly regular basis, accompanied by the usual message "A restart was attempted automagicly." Since March 2006, when we first switched our web host to LW, there have been well over a hundred of them. My question is: Are such frequent failures commonplace (i.e.: benign) on a VPS, or should I be concerned about them? I usually check our web site after receiving each notice, and it is always up by the time I get there. Nevertheless, it would be nice to know if all these occurrences are considered normal. For example, 19 exim failures over a 6.5-hour span on 9/29/07 do seem a bit extreme. If anyone reading this thread is technically inclined, I'd like to know what process or hardware state is usually responsible for causing such failures. FYI, I use cPanel in my web browser to administer the site from a Macintosh computer running OS 9.2.2. I have never used SSH, and have also never read any raw logs. If I did, I'm not sure what they would tell me about this, anyway. I should also say that our site uses nowhere near the capacity provided by our VPS1 account. We are well below the maximum HD space and monthly allowable bandwidth. The site uses only standard HTML, text include files, and GIF/JPG graphics files; no streaming. There is only limited use of a CGI script for routine form submissions, and currently there are no PHP scripts running for BBs, calendars, blogs, chat rooms, or any MySQL databases being used. In short, I would think that the site places little load on the server or its processes. I would greatly appreciate any feedback. Thanks! cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/9/07, 11:53 PM cpsrvd on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/10/07, 2:06 AM mysql on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/10/07, 2:06 AM spamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/10/07, 2:07 AM clamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/10/07, 2:07 AM cpsrvd on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/10/07, 2:08 AM ftpd on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/10/07, 2:08 AM named on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/10/07, 2:08 AM pop on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/27/07, 11:42 PM cpsrvd on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 12:59 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 1:09 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 1:30 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 1:39 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 1:58 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 2:10 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 2:22 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 2:31 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 2:41 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 2:50 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 3:00 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 3:09 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 3:40 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 3:50 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 3:59 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 7:09 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 7:19 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 7:28 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 7:37 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 10/7/07, 11:41 PM cpsrvd on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 11/8/07, 12:42 AM cpsrvd on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 11/19/07, 12:37 PM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 11/21/07, 12:43 AM cpsrvd on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 11/22/07, 12:44 AM cpsrvd on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 11/23/07, 12:42 AM cpsrvd on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 11/25/07, 11:32 AM cpsrvd on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 11/25/07, 11:44 AM pop on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 11/25/07, 12:06 PM spamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed cpanel@host.xxxxxx.net 11/29/07, 12:41 AM cpsrvd on host.xxxxxx.net failed

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