From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 21 16:58:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA15256 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:58:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA15180 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:58:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id JAA08243; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 09:27:54 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980722092754.D8098@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 09:27:54 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: David Wolfskill , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, vans@static.bigfoot.com Subject: Re: Sendmail dying References: <199807211807.LAA26304@pau-amma.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199807211807.LAA26304@pau-amma.whistle.com>; from David Wolfskill on Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 11:07:37AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > >> /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