Re: hanging imapd processes (was Re: Runaway processes ?)

2004-12-01 Thread Ulf Pensar
Craig Sanders wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 09:26:34PM +0200, Uffe Pensar wrote: I'm in the process of separating the webmail from the imap and I have have installed xinetd with max_load and other limits. But still I can't understand that i get those hanging imapd processes ? # ps axu|grep

hanging imapd processes (was Re: Runaway processes ?)

2004-11-28 Thread Uffe Pensar
Craig Sanders wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 07:15:43PM +0200, Uffe Pensar wrote: [141 lines of quoted material deleted. please learn to trim your quotes ] ok thanks for all the good advices, I will install postfix and have a look att the dovecot and xinetd packages if you're

Re: hanging imapd processes (was Re: Runaway processes ?)

2004-11-28 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 09:26:34PM +0200, Uffe Pensar wrote: I'm in the process of separating the webmail from the imap and I have have installed xinetd with max_load and other limits. But still I can't understand that i get those hanging imapd processes ? # ps axu|grep imapd|grep root

Re: Runaway processes ?

2004-11-24 Thread Uffe Pensar
Craig Sanders wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 02:28:43PM +0200, Ulf Pensar wrote: We have an emailserver that we had to reboot the hard way a couple of times a week.Now its a couple of time a day (perhaps because the number of users have been growing) [...] the inetd generates root owned

Re: Runaway processes ?

2004-11-24 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 07:15:43PM +0200, Uffe Pensar wrote: [141 lines of quoted material deleted. please learn to trim your quotes ] ok thanks for all the good advices, I will install postfix and have a look att the dovecot and xinetd packages if you're running dovecot, you don't need

Runaway processes ?

2004-11-23 Thread Ulf Pensar
Hi, We have an emailserver that we had to reboot the hard way a couple of times a week.Now its a couple of time a day (perhaps because the number of users have been growing) From the logs we can't see anything, it just stops logging. From a process-logging-script (runs 'ps axu' every minute)

Re: Runaway processes ?

2004-11-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 02:28:43PM +0200, Ulf Pensar wrote: We have an emailserver that we had to reboot the hard way a couple of times a week.Now its a couple of time a day (perhaps because the number of users have been growing) [...] the inetd generates root owned processes and it doesnt

switching to dovecot from uw-imapd (was: Re: Runaway processes ?)

2004-11-23 Thread Nate Duehr
Craig Sanders wrote: - uw-imap-ssl (starting from inetd) replace with something sane. dovecot or courier-imapd for example. dovecot works with mbox and Maildir mail boxes, courier-imapd only with Maildir. you probably have mbox if you're running an old sendmail machine. it's a trivial