Graeme Fowler wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 18:31 +0300, Information wrote:
>> http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20060410/msg00153.html
>
> And with a flourish, the answer is in the same thread: ta-da!
>
> http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20060410/msg00167.html
>
> It can happen with sendmail & postfix, as far as I can remember. Any
> process, in fact, that is exec()'d by Apache can inherit this problem if
> the Apache process which spawned the subprocess goes away in the
> meantime. I used to see this quite a lot with duff PHP scripts in a
> shared hosting environment where Apache got an 'apachectl graceful' once
> an hour.
>
> Graeme
>
>
(Quoting Marc Haber from the response..)
"Frankly, I don't see what the Debian exim4 packages could do to remedy
this."
FWIW, "Mention it as a possibility" is about all. Lot's of folks are 'married'
to A Patchy Server.
I can't say with certainty that Xitami, Lighttpd, AolServer, thttpd, boa, or any
of several other httpd might not also do something similar - the 'inheritance'
issue...
But they have never done so *here*, even during the several years we ran Drupal
(PHP).
There is probably a way to prevent Apache doing it as well...
YMMV,
Bill
