Exim dead but subsys locked

Exim dead but subsys locked
You may get the error "exim dead but subsys locked" while restarting the exim service. This article will help you resolve this issue.

Exim – one of the famous mail servers our there. Default mail server of cPanel. In some cases, you may have to disable Exim. In most cases, it must be due to spamming issues. Before finding and fixing the issue, the first thing you have to do is stop the spamming activities, and the easy way to do that is to disable your Mail service. Otherwise, there are chances that your IP may get on Blacklist. There are several ways to disable Exim. If you stopped the service under “init.d,” the “chkservd” service will bring it up. Then the other way is to remove the permission and set attributes.

You guys don’t have to do those things. All you have to do is follow the below two steps.

1) Stop the service

/etc/init.d/exim stop
or
service exim stop

 

2) Create an empty file called “eximdisable” under “/etc”

touch /etc/eximdisable

 

That’s it!! Now when you try to restart or start the exim service, you will get the following error.

/etc/init.d/exim status
exim dead but subsys locked

 

That means it will remain stopped, and “chkservd” can’t start it!
So if you ever found the error “exim dead but subsys locked”, now you know how to fix it. It’s simple. Just remove that “eximdisable” file. Then you are good to go.

rm -rf /etc/eximdisable

 

Now you know how to disable exim and fix the error “exim dead but subsys locked”.

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