Hi all- I had an interesting issue today and wondered if someone else had run into it before. I am running my e-mail engine (7.1) on a Linux server (RHEL 5.10) and using POP3 to get messages from a remote mail server. Normally if there's a problem the Email Error form fills up with connection errors but this time it failed to pull down messages for over 24 hours but never logged an error.
I used the emaild.sh script with the stop parameter to kill the process and normally it stops it immediately, then a monitoring script sees that it isn't running and starts it up again. However today the stop script appeared to hang and after five minutes I finally did a kill -9 on the PID to kill the process. The monitoring script started it back up immediately with a new PID and it processed the 124 waiting messages via POP3 within 30 seconds. Any ideas what would cause the engine to hang without logging an error? Any suggestions on how to monitor and alert on this situation? To date I have just been visually looking at the Inbox via Outlook on my local machine to make sure there are no messages waiting (the e-mail engine polls every two minutes) but that is obviously not an optimal solution. Apparently I forgot to check it yesterday, hence the 24 hour backup of messages. Thanks in advance, Rick _________________________ Rick Westbrock AppOps Engineer | IT Department 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
