From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 12 00:47:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA07054 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 00:47:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.aros.net (shell.aros.net [205.164.111.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA07049 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 00:47:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from angio@localhost) by shell.aros.net (8.7.5/Unknown) id BAA21760; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:47:42 -0600 (MDT) From: Dave Andersen Message-Id: <199604120747.BAA21760@shell.aros.net> Subject: Re: majordomo To: john@ulantris.infinop.com (John A. Booth) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:47:41 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199604120422.XAA00470@ulantris.infinop.com> from "John A. Booth" at "Apr 11, 96 11:22:34 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It needs a few. There (last time I peeked) were a few un-escaped @ symbols, but the most nasty bug and the one it sounds like you're describing, is that majordomo will go in to a memory-eating loop and chew your system if it can't write to its logfile. With majordomo and problems, the order of things is "check the permissions, check them again, do it a few more times, and then see what else may be wrong." Check your permissions. :) The only other "bugs" i've found that will cause it to eat memory are some infinite mail-looping possibilities which get it in to a game of tag with syslog and an ever-increasing message length. -Dave Andersen Lo and behold, John A. Booth once said: > Is it a real memory hog or does the perl script for 1.93 need some mods > to work correctly w/perl 5.01? > -- angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual "There are only two industries that refer to thier customers as 'users'."