Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 09:27:54 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, vans@static.bigfoot.com Subject: Re: Sendmail dying Message-ID: <19980722092754.D8098@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199807211807.LAA26304@pau-amma.whistle.com>; from David Wolfskill on Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 11:07:37AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980721123917.5516B-100000@static.bigfoot.com> <199807211807.LAA26304@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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On Tuesday, 21 July 1998 at 11:07:37 -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: >> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 12:45:30 -0400 (EDT) >> From: Trans Vans <vans@static.bigfoot.com> > >> /kernel: pid 5312 (sendmail), uid 0: exited on signal 11 >> sendmail[5311]:NOQUEUE :SYSERR(root): SMTP-MAIL: died on signal 11 > >> Ok so sendmail has died for me. I'm not too heartbroken because a >> kill -HUP fixed it. > > I find that somewhat confusing. > > In the environments I've previously been exp[osed to, once a process had > terminated (as a result of receipt of a signal, or any other reason), > sending a signal to the process would merely result in the "kill" > program whining about "no such process". I think what he means is that a child of the sendmail daemon dies (look at the PIDs in the messages), and that he kill -HUP's the parent process. I've seen something like this with 8.9.0, which occasionally got itself screwed up and started rejecting messages for no good reason. Again, a SIGHUP cured it. I haven't seen this problem since 8.9.1, but I wouldn't count on it being gone. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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