I had a customer e-mail me today saying that their mail system had stopped processing mail last night, finding that amavisd had stopped. Larry sent me an excerpt from the amavisd log that indicated that the TCP process couldn't bind because the port was already in use.
This sounded like a problem that might occur when a process is restarted using rc run control, and looking at the rc.amavisd script, sure enough it does a restart during log processing. There is a two second sleep in the %restart section of the rc.amavisd run control script. I think it might be a good idea to bump this significantly, say to 20 seconds or so. This would explain several occassions where our main mailing list server here stopped working with a dead amavisd process. That machine isn't particularly fast, and the load average can get pretty high when delivering large Mailman lists. I think this also is applicable to apache as I've seen many instances where it takes longer than the 2 second sleep time in the apache %stop section before all the apache processes are complete. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.'' --Thomas Jefferson. ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List openpkg-dev@openpkg.org
