Thanks for your all your help, by the way :-) I actually spent *days*, and lots of digging on the Net, trying to get it to work with daemontools. As I say I have a number of working systems to compare and contrast with, and I do generally stick closely to Mr. McKenna's howto. What I mean to say is that it ain't going to work at all if I go back.
Its starting to look like the way forward is to rebuild the box with something other than RedHat and start again, although this feels even more like admitting defeat. I could always put W2000 on it and run Exchange :-) Oh well...... H. On Friday 04 July 2003 10:03, Kiril Todorov wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 09:51:06AM +0100, Howard Miller wrote: > > Mmm.... > > > > However this particular system is RedHat 8, and I was having big problems > > with daemontools processes just dying (big list of <defunct> processes). > > This was reported by others here and there but I never saw (or found) a > > decent explanation - I rather came to the conclusion that daemontools was > > broken in some way. Hence backing off to the old fashioned solution. > > trust me.. daemontools aren't broken :) if theres anything broken that > might be RedHat's config, a bunch of <defuncts> might come from wrong run > files for example, but without detailed look at them I can't say for sure. > > > It is worth noting that this is a *very* low-use mail server, its just > > used for a small department/project and only has about 6 users, which is > > why I wasn't too worried in the first place. 50 incoming connections > > strikes me as extremely unlikely, unless of course something else nasty > > has happened. > > Well, give it a try with daemontools, I'll be glad to help with anything > you might need there. I bet it's xinetd causing the problems, still it's > kinda weird if there are really just 6 users.
