[Mimedefang] Hanging processes...

[J.P van Oyen]

It could indeed be threads as I compiled Perl with thread support...
Anyone with thread support with the same symtoms ?


perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.4.20, archname=i686-linux-thread-multi
    uname='linux gidswww 2.4.20 #2 sat feb 1 15:39:10 cet 2003 i686 unknown '
    config_args=''
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define
usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing
-I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O3',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing
-I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.3 20010315 (release)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    libc=/lib/libc-2.2.5.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
    gnulibc_version='2.2.5'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic
-Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux-thread-multi/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES
PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Feb  4 2003 20:38:53
  @INC:
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl


---------- Original Message -----------
From: "G. Roderick Singleton" <gerry at pathtech.org>
To: MimeDefang <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: 05 Aug 2003 17:40:02 -0400
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Hanging processes...

> On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 17:15, David F. Skoll wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, J.P van Oyen wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > Has anyone seen this effect :
> > > Running killall mimedefang :
> > > defang     184  0.0  0.1  3676  768 ?        S    Aug01   0:01
> > > /usr/local/bin/mimedefang -P /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.pid -m
> > > defang     185  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Aug01   0:03 [mimedefang]
> > > <defunct>
> > > Now I need to kill -9 184 to get all removed....
> > 
> > Yes, I have seen that effect.  I think it's a bug in Linux's pthreads
> > implementation.  Just change the script to do a kill -9 on mimedefang
> > instead of a regular kill.
> 
> Another possible source of failure under RH is that the user forgot 
> to copy mimedefang-sysconfig to /etc/sysconfig/mimedefang. I did and 
> had similar symptoms until I did this.
> -- 
> Gerry Roderick Singleton <gerry at pathtech.org>
> 416-452-4583
> 
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