On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 09:26:34PM +0200, Uffe Pensar wrote: > I'm in the process of separating the webmail from the imap and I have > have installed xinetd with > max_load and other limits. > But still I can't understand that i get those hanging imapd processes ? > > # ps axu|grep imapd|grep root > root 22700 0.0 0.0 4064 1308 ? S Nov25 0:00 [imapd] > root 11359 0.0 0.0 4064 1400 ? S Nov27 0:00 [imapd] > root 6473 0.0 0.0 4064 1400 ? S Nov27 0:00 [imapd] > root 3801 0.0 0.0 4064 1400 ? S Nov27 0:00 [imapd] > root 6194 0.0 0.0 1752 732 pts/7 S 21:11 0:00 grep imapd > > woody and uw-imap-ssl (those hanging connections are not coming from > webmail)
there could be clients still connected from Nov 25 & Nov 27. impossible to tell just from a ps listing. you can use netstat and lsof to see which processes have active connections (or are listening) on the imap port. see the man pages for details. but i wouldn't bother. uw-imapd is junk, and its problems are pretty much unfixable. that explains a lot. i'd just replace it with something sane. BTW, you chose the more difficult path. instead of just replacing uw-imapd with dovecot, which would have been a simple action with one isolated effect (changing the imap daemon), you chose to replace inetd with xinetd, which affects dozens or possibly hundreds of unrelated inet daemons. why? craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (part time cyborg) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]