On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Well, this would explain it. Let me rephrase the question, any reason
> why Exims from June 10th haven't timed out yet? :/
>
> mail 750 0.0 0.0 1576 44 ? S Jun 25 0:01 /usr/sbin/exim -Mc
> root@teleute:~# exiwhat
> 750 2.05 delivering 10xRLD-0000By-00: waiting for a delivery subprocess to
I have occasionally seen these on Solaris systems, but for *incoming*
rather than outgoing messages. It is always stuck in read(), and SIGALRM
doesn't budge it, though all attempts to reproduce the problem have
failed. It is usually related to a dial-in connection.
Maybe there is some similar problem on output?
> Should I kill these off or does anyone have any bright ideas on anything
> else I can do to diagnose this?
Try sending SIGALRM first, to see if that helps. If you can attach a
debugger to find out where they are stuck (i.e. in which system function
if possible) it might help. My guess would be write(), but maybe there's
some other problem.
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