----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "alexus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: clearopensmtp
> alexus wrote:
> >
> > hi
> >
> > when i was compiling vpopmail i used romaing user feature
> >
> > and i add this into my crontab
> >
> > 40 * * * * ~vpopmail/bin/clearopensmtp 2>&1 > /dev/null
> >
> > for number of month everything was working fine.. i didn't touch
anything at
> > all
> >
> > i was able to receive/send mail just fine...
> >
> > now i looked at my process lists and i saw about 30 of clearopensmtp
process
> >
> > i never seen anything like that before on my box.. any ideas why?
> >
> > i understand crontab starts them... but why wouldn't it do what is has
to do
> > and die/quit/finished whatever...
> >
> > please help
> >
> > thanks in advance
>
> The "~" looks suspicious. Put the full path.
i doubt that this will change anything
i already tryed to run with full path from command line and it won't return
back to command prompt.. so something else is wrong
and if it was a path problem it'd say something like file/command not found
>
> You can attach a debugger to one of the running clearopensmtp
> programs and find out why it is not completing.
>
could you guide me how to do that?
> Ken JOnes
>
