Re: I want to optimize for mailinglists.

[Steven W. Orr]

On Sat, 06 Sep 2003, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> spamass-milter is not properly daemonizing itself. Under Red Hat 9 I
> run ps -auxfw and what I see is this:
> 
> root     22714  0.0  0.0 52624  692 pts/2    S    Sep05   0:03 \
> /usr/local/sbin/spamass-milter -p /var/run/spamass.sock -f -u user

That's wierd. daemonize must be doing something odd in RH9.
start-stop-daemon (Debian) doesn't show this problem:

10694 ?        S      0:01 /usr/sbin/spamass-milter -p
/var/run/sendmail/spamass.sock -u user
10695 ?        S      0:01 /usr/sbin/spamass-milter -p
/var/run/sendmail/spamass.sock -u user
10696 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/spamass-milter -p
/var/run/sendmail/spamass.sock -u user



I just want to add one more note here as to why you're not seeing a 
problem and I am:

I started by spamass-milter from a commandline. I'm betting you started 
yours from boot when the controlling process didn't own a console. If you 
shut your process down and then start it up, you should see that your 
terminal is *not* relinquished.

In addition, if you kill the xterm that you started spamass-milter from 
and then start a new xterm you'll see that the tty that you get will be 
the nextone and not the old one.

-- 
-Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have -
-happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ
-Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all-
-individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
steveo at syslang.net