On 29/06/00 12:06 +0530, Simanta J Handique spewed into the LI bitstream:
>I'm having problems with sendmail. Sometimes it just stops accepting mails
>from all mail clients. I cannot restart sendmail after that. If I do a
>'ps -A' I have sendmail<defunct> process running. I cannot kill that process
>also. But if I reboot, sendmail starts functioning again. Can anyone help me
>out here.
That is, sendmail is becoming a Zombie process.
http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section4.html#4.6
Date: March 23, 1996
I'm connected to the network via a SLIP/PPP link. Sometimes my sendmail
process hangs (although it looks like part of the message has been
transfered). Everything else works. What's wrong?
Most likely, the problem isn't sendmail at all, but the low level network
connection. It's important that the MTU (Maximum Transfer Unit) for the
SLIP connection be set properly at both ends. If they disagree, large
packets will be trashed and the connection will hang.
> >Also my machine is behind a msproxy server. For all win machines, the
>default gateway has been set to 10.20.254.1 address and the proxy server
>setting has been set to a 194.202.106.249 address. The win machines are able
There are lots of howtos for this on linuxdocs.org :)
>box to the same settings as the win machines. Setting up the proxy for a
>browser is easy. But for sendmail and fetchmail? Do I need a msproxy client
>in linux? Is there a msproxy client for linux?
That shouldnt be a problem ... what is the specific error you're getting?
configure squid on a linux box instead of using ms proxy and see ..
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