Think that is the case however this would indicate a more serious bug as it's pid-entry isn't supposed to be cleared except on child exit. Try placing a exit(0) (and a trace(_ERROR) message) just after the for loop and see what happens..
regards roel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <dbmail@dbmail.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 2:22 AM Subject: [Dbmail] Still getting failed suicides... > > Still getting apparent repeated failed suicides; any suggestions of ways to > track this down would be helpful. Looking at the code, I'd guess that the > child process is not finding itself in the list of processes, so is never > getting to the 'exit(0)' statement, but I'd appreaite a comment from > someone who knows the code better. > > > Sep 25 00:01:39 mag dbmail/pop3d[3464]: pop3(): user dwilson logged in > [messages=24, octets=215520] > Sep 25 00:01:40 mag dbmail/pop3d[3464]: handle_client(): user dwilson > logging out [message=24, octets=215520] > Sep 25 00:01:40 mag dbmail/pop3d[3464]: Maximum # of connections reached, > committing suicide... > Sep 25 00:01:40 mag dbmail/pop3d[3465]: handle_client(): incoming > connection from [10.10.10.2] > Sep 25 00:01:41 mag dbmail/pop3d[3465]: pop3(): user adamson logged in > [messages=0, octets=0] > Sep 25 00:01:41 mag dbmail/pop3d[3465]: handle_client(): user adamson > logging out [message=0, octets=0] > Sep 25 00:01:41 mag dbmail/pop3d[3465]: Maximum # of connections reached, > committing suicide... > Sep 25 00:01:42 mag dbmail/pop3d[3463]: handle_client(): incoming > connection from [10.192.4.248] > Sep 25 00:01:43 mag dbmail/pop3d[3463]: pop3(): user rperrignon logged in > [messages=0, octets=0] > Sep 25 00:01:43 mag dbmail/pop3d[3463]: handle_client(): user rperrignon > logging out [message=0, octets=0] > Sep 25 00:01:43 mag dbmail/pop3d[3463]: Maximum # of connections reached, > committing suicide... > Sep 25 00:01:43 mag dbmail/pop3d[82258]: handle_client(): incoming > connection from [10.193.1.141] > Sep 25 00:01:43 mag dbmail/pop3d[82258]: pop3(): user spiedade logged in > [messages=0, octets=0] > Sep 25 00:01:43 mag dbmail/pop3d[82258]: handle_client(): user spiedade > logging out [message=0, octets=0] > Sep 25 00:01:43 mag dbmail/pop3d[82261]: handle_client(): incoming > connection from [10.193.1.141] > Sep 25 00:01:43 mag dbmail/pop3d[82262]: handle_client(): incoming > connection from [10.193.1.141] > Sep 25 00:01:45 mag dbmail/pop3d[3464]: handle_client(): incoming > connection from [10.10.10.2] > Sep 25 00:01:46 mag dbmail/pop3d[3464]: pop3(): user moconnor logged in > [messages=0, octets=0] > Sep 25 00:01:46 mag dbmail/pop3d[3464]: handle_client(): user moconnor > logging out [message=0, octets=0] > Sep 25 00:01:46 mag dbmail/pop3d[3464]: Maximum # of connections reached, > committing suicide... > Sep 25 00:01:50 mag dbmail/pop3d[3465]: handle_client(): incoming > connection from [10.10.10.2] > Sep 25 00:01:50 mag dbmail/pop3d[3465]: pop3(): user gordon logged in > [messages=0, octets=0] > Sep 25 00:01:50 mag dbmail/pop3d[3465]: handle_client(): user gordon > logging out [message=0, octets=0] > Sep 25 00:01:51 mag dbmail/pop3d[3465]: Maximum # of connections reached, > committing suicide... > Sep 25 00:01:51 mag dbmail/pop3d[3463]: handle_client(): incoming > connection from [10.10.10.2] > Sep 25 00:01:51 mag dbmail/pop3d[3463]: pop3(): user callaghan logged in > [messages=0, octets=0] > Sep 25 00:01:51 mag dbmail/pop3d[3463]: handle_client(): user callaghan > logging out [message=0, octets=0] > Sep 25 00:01:51 mag dbmail/pop3d[3463]: Maximum # of connections reached, > committing suicide... > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Philip Warner | __---_____ > Albatross Consulting Pty. Ltd. |----/ - \ > (A.B.N. 75 008 659 498) | /(@) ______---_ > Tel: (+61) 0500 83 82 81 | _________ \ > Fax: (+61) 0500 83 82 82 | ___________ | > Http://www.rhyme.com.au | / \| > | --________-- > PGP key available upon request, | / > and from pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371 |/ > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail mailing list > Dbmail@dbmail.org > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail >