It means that the ~44min processing done by one qmail-pop3d (stopped/defunct), and
now appear 4 qmail-pop3d spinning ( where the longest running has accumulated ~36
minutes at this moment in time )
Chris Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 08:45:36AM -0500, Uncle George wrote:
> > using the mbox2maildir routines, I converted myself. During that process I
> > ran outta disk space - oh well.
> > turned off the machine, I went to sleep.
> > This morning I turned on the machine. Saw that there were some 30000 msgs
> > of about 144megs of data in my Maildir.
> > Told netscape ( on a remote unix machine ) to "Get Mesg", which logged into
> > my account on the qmail/server machine & began processing . Some 45 mins
> > later( on a 486/66mhz ) It appears that the qmail-pop3 daemon gave up ( ie
> > that process disappeared ). Now in its place there are 4 qmail-pop3d
> > daemons spinning in its stead.
>
> What does "spinning its stead" mean? Is that computer lingo? What makes you
> think that those four instances of qmail-pop3d are replacements for the
> original one? What makes you think the original one "gave up"?
>
> > The remote mail-reader ( appears to have done nothing ie it didn't read
> > that ~30000 msgs ), but it regained control back ( ie "get mesg" button is
> > no longer grey'ed out )
>
> This is incomprehensible.
>
> > Btw: I suppose no-one can tell me why /var/qmail/sendmail <gat@localhost>
> > fails with qmail.
>
> What did you expect it to do? How is is failing? What *is* /var/qmail/sendmail?
> It doesn't exist in a standard qmail installation.
>
> Chris
