Re: gnatsweb/277: Sendmail hangs

[Daniel Bruce Lynes]

The following reply was made to PR gnatsweb/277; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Daniel Bruce Lynes <address@hidden>
To: Yngve Svendsen <address@hidden>,
 address@hidden
Cc:  
Subject: Re: gnatsweb/277: Sendmail hangs
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 16:58:53 -0700

 On October 15, 2001 02:04 pm, Yngve Svendsen wrote:
 
 It seemed to only be a problem when it was set up.  After I killed Sendmail 
 and restarted it a few times, it seemed to alleviate the problem.  I'm 
 wondering if it was a problem with something that sendmail interacts with...
 
 Strange...
 
 > >gnats 3.113
 > >Linux 2.2.13 kernel
 > >Slackware 7.0 distro
 > >Sendmail 8.9.3 (routing all mail to a Sendmail 8.11.2 server)
 > >
 > > >Description:
 > >
 > >- sendmail -oi -t seems to hang as a background process
 > >- it eventually completes, sometimes orphans from the cgi process
 > >- when it orphans, the header for the html is returned, but nothing else
 > >- i've tried changing it to sendmail -oi -oem -t, but it still didn't help
 > >- other times it works just fine...the problem seems to be intermittent
 > >
 > > >How-To-Repeat:
 > >
 > >- wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary
 >
 > Hm. This might be a tough one, since it could be a problem with your
 > system. Are there any clues whatsoever in the web server error log? And did
 > you try Gnatsweb 2.9.1?
 >
 > Yngve Svendsen
 > Gnatsweb maintainer