From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 4 17:28:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA03489 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 17:28:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA03484 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 17:28:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id AAA19483; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 00:28:53 GMT Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 17:28:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Todd R Butler cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.5 lockf State In-Reply-To: <199709042101.RAA24004@mail.cduniverse.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Todd R Butler wrote: > Sendmail 8.7.5 running on Freebsd 2.1.5 has recently started to create > many lockf > states and hung processes displayed by TOP and ps -ax after over a year in > production as a mail server. I'd use this as an opportunity to upgrade to sendmail 8.8.7 You'll get the latest exploit fixes plus the new anti-spam stuff and it may even fix this problem :) 8.8.5 built fine on 2.1.5 so 8.8.7 should too. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82