I was running it as root. I switched to a non-privileged user and the problems seems to have fixed itself.
Thanks for the help. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul J Stevens Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 2:09 PM To: Jesse Norell; DBMail mailinglist Subject: Re: [Dbmail] DBMail crashes system Yep. A bug in the process management code would be the primary suspect here. Reaping of child processes needs some rethinking. Geo had some useful ideas (self-pipe) I intent to follow up on. If it's the bug in question, running as non-privileged users is the solution for now. But then, if you run server processes as root, you *will* be bitten, period. Aint no bug fix in dbmail gonna help you then. Tom, please tell me you're running as root. If a non-privileged process starts killing processes like ssh, you have bigger (kernel) problems. So: run all dbmail processes as uid dbmail gid dbmail, and run them setgid.
