What does your 'qmail start' script look like? If you converted to the most
recent supervise from an older version, and didn't convert things into the
'run' file correctly, you could see this behaviour.
-D
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Denka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 3:04 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: qmail hanging - best way to restart
>
>
>We are having some problems with qmail hanging and no longer responding to
>POP requests or smtp requests. Restarting all qmail processes and
>qmail-popup resolves the problem. I notice that when I stop qmail, the
>/etc/init.d/qmail stop script does not stop all processes, only those whose
>effective uids are 0 (root). Therefore several processes remain
>running and
>I must wait for them to terminate to restart. This can be quite a
>long time
>(sometimes the processes seem to be hung and never terminate naturally).
>
>Two questions:
>
>1) anyone else notice this problem with both qmail pop and qmail smtp
>hanging (on Solaris 7 running on an E250 with 512 MB RAM - using tcpserver
>to fork the processes - note: this does NOT seem to be related to the
>previous thread on Solaris 7 problems - that thread mentioned thousands of
>qmail processes stalling, I never have more than 40 or 50).
>
>2) Is there any reason that qmail processes whose effective uid is not 0
>shouldn't be killed when stopping and restarting?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mike
>
>
