Greetings folks, Ever since I implemented the "fixcr" addition to "smtpd", I've noticed that over time my qmail servers accumulate a large number (several dozen) pairs of processes: "fixcr" and "sh -c fixcr | /usr/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd". ---------------------------------------------- ps -alxww UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND 1002 45088 88130 0 10 0 496 244 wait I ?? 0:00.00 sh -c fixcr | /usr/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 1002 45105 45088 0 2 0 752 380 sbwait S ?? 0:00.08 fixcr ... 88130 p1- S 2:06.75 tcpserver -c 600 -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 1002 -g 1001 0 smtp sh -c fixcr | /usr/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd ---------------------------------------------- When I kill -9 a "fixcr" process, it ends the corresponding "sh -c fixcr | /usr/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd" process, which makes it appear that for some reason "fixcr" is having trouble exiting cleanly. Other than an occasional "killall -9 fixcr" that I have to run, it doesn't seem to cause any problems except for concern by the mail administrator (me :) that something isn't configured properly. Speaking of configuration, here's what I use: tcpserver -c 600 -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -u `id -u qmaild` -g `id -g qmaild` 0 smtp \ sh -c 'fixcr | /usr/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd' & Any suggestions? Thanks! Dave
