On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Ken Larkman wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of D. Duccini > > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 6:09 AM > > To: XMail mailing list > > Subject: [xmail] XMail 1.18 (FreeBSD/Ix86) -- zombie? > > > > > > > > As we've loaded a new freebsd/xmail implementation up with > > more customers, > > we're increasingly finding it go zombie on us -- its still running in > > memory, but no longer accepts connections on either 25/110 > > I am experiencing the same problem with Xmail 1.18. I've pretty much > narrowed the problem down to a FreeBSD issue, most likely a > configuration issue related to the hard drives. My recent experience > with Ecartis and partition location has cemented my belief that this is > a FreeBSD issue and not a Xmail issue. My current solution is to > auto-reboot the server at midnight every day (my situation makes this an > option) and this seems to completely resolve the issue. It looks like > the "zombiefication" occurred around 3 a.m. or so every night.
Guys, if you run ecartis, you need to take very special care. First, run it under swrap on a non privileged user: http://www.xmailserver.org/swrap.c Second, at the beginning of the "main" function add something like: srand(time() * getpid() * XXX); alloca(rand() % 2048); where XXX is your random number. Do *not* let XMail to run ecartis as root, since it is not the safest package on Earth. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
