exiwhat(t)                                             exiwhat(t)



NAME
       exiwhat  -  programs  to query what running exim processes
       are doing

SYNOPSIS
       exiwhat

DESCRIPTION
       The shell script called exiwhat first of all  empties  the
       processlog  file in Exim's log directory. It then uses the
       ps command to find all processes running exim,  and  sends
       each  one  the SIGUSR1 signal. This causes each process to
       write a single line describing its current activity to the
       processlog  file.  The script waits a bit, then copies the
       file to the standard output.

         164 0.53 daemon: -q1h, listening on port 25
       10483 0.54 running queue: waiting for 0tAycK-0002ij-00 (10492)
       10492 0.54 delivering 0tAycK-0002ij-00 to mail.ref.book [42.42.42.42]
         (editor@ref.book)
       10592 0.53 handling incoming call from [245.211.243.242]
       10628 0.54 accepting a local non-SMTP message

       The first number in the output line is the process number;
       the  second is the Exim version number. The third line has
       been split here, in order to fit it on the  page.  Because
       Exim  processes  run under a variety of uids, it is neces-
       sary to run exiwhat as root in order to be  able  to  send
       the signal to all Exim processes.

SEE ALSO
       There    is    extensive    documentation   available   in
       /usr/share/doc/exim and in the info system regarding exim.
       Please be sure to have the exim-doc package installed.

AUTHOR
       This manual page was stiched together by Christoph Lameter
       <clameter@debian.org>,  from  the  original  documentation
       coming   with   the  sourcecode  package  for  the  Debian
       GNU/Linux system.



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