{"id":3698,"date":"2016-04-27T12:06:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T12:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/?p=3698"},"modified":"2021-02-05T11:52:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T11:52:51","slug":"disable-auto-restart-exim-cpanel-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/disable-auto-restart-exim-cpanel-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Disable auto restart of Exim on cPanel servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this article we assume that you are using cPanel on your server\/machine and want to disable exim service for long time. Mostly it happens that we stop the service and get shocked when we see it back up and running after several minutes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So in this article we will show you how to disable the <a href=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/exim-error-internal-problem-in-system-filter-failure-to-transfer-data-from-subprocess-status0100-readerrorno-such-file-or-directory\/\">Exim<\/a> service for long time.<\/p>\n<p>Basically it happens due to a cPanel utility chkservd which monitor all applications and in case find issue with any of those services it will automatically restart them.<\/p>\n<p>There are two steps we have to perform.<\/p>\n<p>Stop the <a href=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/error-exim-has-been-disabled-by-the-sys-admin\/\">Exim <\/a>service:<\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true  \">\/etc\/init.d\/exim stop\r\nOR\r\nService exim stop<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>Create an empty file called \u201cdisableexim\u201d under \u201c\/etc\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">touch \/etc\/disableexim<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now if you try to restart the <a href=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/550-rejected-bad-helo-exim-error\/\">Exim<\/a> service, you will get the following error:\u00a0<strong>\/etc\/init.d\/exim statusexim dead but subsys locked.<\/strong>This way it will remain stop and \u201cchkservd\u201d can\u2019t start it<\/p>\n<p>Once you finish your work just remove that \u201cdisableexim\u201d file.<\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">rm -rf \/etc\/disableexim<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>Done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article we assume that you are using cPanel on your server\/machine and want to disable exim service for long time. 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