Mark wanted us to know: >> ... The result is processes that hang forever >> on our system. We have a cronjob that does a >> killall -HUP sendmail every 2 hours. >> that clears out those hanging processes. >That seems a bit crude. :) I wrote a cronjob like that, in Perl; but, >based on 'ps' output, it only kills sendmail child processes that have >been *idle* for over 10 minutes.
Seems nice. >> I figure if someone can't get a message to me in 2 hours of connect >> time, I almost certainly don't want said message. >But with this blanket kill, you also kill connections that may have just >been there for a few seconds, and are still very much alive. Unfortunately it's required to get sendmail to reload the w class. -- Regards... Todd OS X: We've been fighting the "It's a mac" syndrome with upper management for years now. Lately we've taken to just referring to new mac installations as "Unix" installations when presenting proposals and updates. For some reason, they have no problem with that. -- /. Linux kernel 2.6.11-12mdksmp 2 users, load average: 1.74, 1.54, 1.53 _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
