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and subject line Re: Bug#499951: sympa: keeps open file descriptors for the
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regarding sympa: keeps open file descriptors for the terminal
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Package: sympa
Version: 5.3.4-5.2
Severity: normal
Usertags: bad-daemon
Hi,
When sympa is running as a daemon, it keeps open file descriptors for
the terminal.
root@irma:/# lsof -a -c sympa.pl -c archived.pl -c task_manager.pl -c
bounced.pl +D /dev/pts
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
archived. 8906 sympa 0u CHR 136,1 3 /dev/pts/1
task_mana 8923 sympa 0u CHR 136,1 3 /dev/pts/1
bounced.p 8933 sympa 0u CHR 136,1 3 /dev/pts/1
I think that there is no reason why a daemon should keep the terminal
open.
It's not very annoying when the daemon is run on startup by init. But
when it is run over a SSH session, then the SSH session will not close
gracefully, which is quite annoying.
Simply adding "</dev/null" to the start-stop-daemon calls in /etc/init.d/sympa
would probably solve the problem.
Cheers,
Nicolas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-irma (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages sympa depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.23 Debian configuration management sy
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.18-1 Module for manipulation of ZIP arc
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcgi-fast-perl 5.10.0-14 CGI::Fast Perl module
ii libcrypt-ciphersaber-perl 0.61-4 Perl module implementing CipherSab
ii libdbd-mysql-perl 4.008-1 A Perl5 database interface to the
ii libdbi-perl 1.607-1 Perl5 database interface by Tim Bu
ii libintl-perl 1.16-4 Uniforum message translations syst
ii libio-stringy-perl 2.110-4 Perl modules for IO from scalars a
ii libmailtools-perl 2.04-1 Manipulate email in perl programs
ii libmd5-perl 2.03-1 backwards-compatible wrapper for D
ii libmime-charset-perl 1.006.2-2 Charset Informations for MIME
ii libmime-encwords-perl 1.010.101-1 deal with RFC-1522 encoded words
ii libmime-perl 5.427-1 transitional dummy package
ii libmime-tools-perl [libmime- 5.427-1 Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant m
ii libmsgcat-perl 1.03-4+b1 Locale::Msgcat perl module
ii libnet-ldap-perl 1:0.37-1 A Client interface to LDAP servers
ii libtemplate-perl 2.20-1 template processing system written
ii libxml-libxml-perl 1.66-1+b1 Perl module for using the GNOME li
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii mhonarc 2.6.16-1 Mail to HTML converter
ii perl [libmime-base64-perl] 5.10.0-14 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-suid 5.10.0-14 Runs setuid Perl scripts
ii ssmtp [mail-transport-agent] 2.62-1 extremely simple MTA to get mail o
ii sysklogd [system-log-daemon] 1.5-5 System Logging Daemon
Versions of packages sympa recommends:
ii doc-base 0.8.16 utilities to manage online documen
ii logrotate 3.7.1-3 Log rotation utility
Versions of packages sympa suggests:
pn apache2 | httpd-cgi <none> (no description available)
pn libapache2-mod-fcgid <none> (no description available)
pn libsoap-lite-perl <none> (no description available)
ii mysql-server 5.0.51a-15 MySQL database server (metapackage
ii mysql-server-5.0 [mysql-serve 5.0.51a-15 MySQL database server binaries
pn openssl <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
sympa/key_password_again: (password omitted)
* sympa/db_passwd: (password omitted)
* sympa/db_passwd_again: (password omitted)
sympa/key_password: (password omitted)
* sympa/db_adminpasswd: (password omitted)
* sympa/use_db: true
sympa/db_removeonpurge: false
sympa/use_soap: false
wwsympa/webserver_type: Apache 2
* sympa/listmaster: [email protected]
wwsympa/wwsympa_url:
wwsympa/webserver_restart: true
wwsympa/remove_spool: false
* sympa/hostname: irma.home
* sympa/db_options:
* sympa/db_user: sympa
sympa/wwsympa_configured: false
* sympa/db_name: sympa
wwsympa/fastcgi: false
* sympa/db_type: MySQL
* sympa/db_configured: true
* sympa/use_wwsympa: false
* sympa/db_hostname: localhost
sympa/db_authtype: Ident-based
sympa/language: en_US
sympa/db_port:
sympa/remove_spool: false
* sympa/smime_support: false
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi,
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 08:36:35PM +0200, Emmanuel Bouthenot wrote:
[...]
> I think that it is an old bug bug which has probably been fixed a long time
> ago
> but I will be glad to get your opinion before closing it.
As I didn't receive any feedback, it's time to close this bug.
Feel free to reopen it if needed.
Regards,
M.
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