Hi Ambar, Just try administring your server using Webmin.
You wil have less trobles with sendmail atleast. Kapil Sethi -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (MingW32) owGbwMvMwCS4zfBMEdeX77MZ18gncWTmlKbrlVSU2LOoM3knFmTmKASnlmRk8nKB YIc9MysDSAamRZDJ7DvD/DrF8qRSbfeH9zOM5TQfTkp9FO28g2F+cgXntaePJjqn dDlxxT7OU7LLDmMBAA== =jBl0 -----END PGP MESSAGE----- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ambar Roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Linux-Delhi mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 2:08 AM Subject: [ilugd] Sendmail spawning lots of processes and bringing downmachine > Hi everyone, > Is there any way to limit the number of processes sendmail spawns? On a > Linux server I am administering, sendmail spawns upto 1500 processes. How > can I stop this? Also is there any way to discard messages with more than a > set number of recipients in the mail? In this particullar server some idiot > is trying to send mails with 3200+ recipients and that tends to bring down > my server :( This fellow is going to get a good piece of my mind next time > he complains about bad services. I know that with qmail this is quite easy > to do, but I could not figure out anything about sendmail. > > Ambar Roy > PS: I need to run sendmail on this server and can't switch to qmail, postfix > or some other mailer daemon! > > > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
