Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:22:46 -0500 From: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> To: questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: unexplained strangness with cucipop pop3 daemon Message-ID: <3A9BAA26.E9851690@wmptl.com>
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For some (yet to be unexplained reason), cucipop has (twice now), somehow locked the /var/mail/<some-user-name> files, and is apparently not erasing the message and exiting. Therefore the next time a user checks email (every two minutes from Outlook) they get another copy of the same message(s). The problem does not stop, (while making some users download the same message >200 times), until cucipop is restarted manually. For obvious reasons, this is becoming a big problem. This is the second time this has happened in two weeks now, and luckily while the majority of the office was not in. What I need to do is find out what's causing it, and/or why. Someone earlier had replied explaining that maybe the system was running out of file-lock resources. So I re-compiled a new kernel with maxusers set to 256, started the system back up, and it ran since Monday morning to Saturday morning and started with the problem again. I've since then re-started cucipop, and things seem fine for now. The strange part is that we've changed nothing for months now, (cept the username of one particular UID), and it had been working fine for > 70 days prior to this. (Would be like >150days, cept that we took it down to upgrade server hardware/install freebsd 4.2-stable) The machine is running an old(er) snapshot of 4.2-STABLE, and I wonder if FreeBSD, or cucipop has a problem in it? I figure maybe cucipop (like some radius daemons) has some memory leakage or something and must be restarted cylically? Any ideas, comments, suggestions, or otherwise would be highly appreciated at this point. Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://home.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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