On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 06:21:53PM +0100, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> - Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> | In any case, he can always use supervise from djb's daemontools
> | package.
>
> That won't detect a process which got stuck in some black hole, which
> was the problem provoking this thread.
>
Can you give an example for a blackhole? (Like how a user's .qmail can get
stuck?)
Thx
Mate
> - Greg Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> | Telling qmail-send to quit didn't help, nor did a regular kill of
> | it, I eventually had to kill -9 the process. When I started it up
> | again, all was fine.
>
> Of course, even after receiving a SIGTERM, qmail-send may stick around
> for quite a long time waiting for qmail-local and qmail-remote
> processes to finish. Looking for those might have revealed what was
> going wrong. For example, I have occasionally seen queues beginning
> to fill up because some user's .qmail scripts got stuck, filling up
> all of qmail-send's local delivery slots.
>
> - Harald
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Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis
