here comes the strace: ------------ hobbes@sphax:~$ sudo strace -p 671890 strace: Process 671890 attached select(6, [3 4 5], NULL, NULL, NULL
waits here before I send the mail ) = 1 (in [5]) wait4(-1, 0x7ffd5fdf4034, WNOHANG, NULL) = -1 ECHILD (Aucun processus enfant) accept(5, {sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(50964), sin6_flowinfo=htonl(0), inet_pton(AF_INET6, "::1", &sin6_addr), sin6_scope_id=0}, [28]) = 6 fcntl(6, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) dup(6) = 7 fcntl(7, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) getsockname(6, {sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(25), sin6_flowinfo=htonl(0), inet_pton(AF_INET6, "::1", &sin6_addr), sin6_scope_id=0}, [28]) = 0 clone(child_stack=NULL, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7faf36b64c50) = 706004 close(6) = 0 close(7) = 0 select(6, [3 4 5], NULL, NULL, NULL waits 10 seconds here ) = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be restarted if no handler) --- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=706004, si_uid=104, si_status=0, si_utime=0, si_stime=1} --- rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {sa_handler=SIG_DFL, sa_mask=[], sa_flags=SA_RESTORER, sa_restorer=0x7faf372abd60}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigreturn({mask=[]}) = -1 EINTR (Appel système interrompu) wait4(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], WNOHANG, NULL) = 706004 wait4(-1, 0x7ffd5fdf4034, WNOHANG, NULL) = -1 ECHILD (Aucun processus enfant) rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {sa_handler=0x558211694c60, sa_mask=[], sa_flags=SA_RESTORER, sa_restorer=0x7faf372abd60}, NULL, 8) = 0 select(6, [3 4 5], NULL, NULL, NULL^Cstrace: Process 671890 detached <detached ...> ---------- Tell-me if you need more info. Thanks, -- Rémi