On Tuesday 09 April 2002 20:12, Oliver Fleischmann wrote: > On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Randall Gellens wrote: > > At 7:05 AM +0200 4/9/02, Oliver Fleischmann wrote: > > >We always had big trouble with hanging popper processes laying around > > > for ever and keeping mailboxes locked. > > > > What does a kernel trace on the processes show? (Something like > > truss(1) or ktrace(1) or whatever your system has.) > > Strace shows the processes waiting in a "read(0, " call; I have never > been able to get more information out of it. > > I have even set up a debug-enabled qpopper with strace on a special port > number, but when I told one of our users to actually use that special > port, such hangs never occured again on that special port, so I never got > a detailed log of what happens. Really strange thing! > > Oliver
That sounds very much like the problem I had a while back. It was one particular mail that always caused it, all others went through fine but on that particular mail qpopper would hang in a read just like yours. I sent the mail that caused the problems to Mr. Gellens but when I asked him if he had been able to reproduce it I never received a reply so I assume he couldn't. Perhaps the problem is specific to certain machines only? Anders
