[ILUG] problem with win9x clients talking to linux sendmail.

Paul Jakma paulj at itg.ie
Tue May 30 08:41:58 IST 2000


On Mon, 29 May 2000, Kenn Humborg wrote:

> So strace (or ltrace) sendmail and do a tcpdump at the same time,
> and then hammer away from the client.  strace usually gets you 
> right to the root of the problem.
> 

it usually does. but in this case i'm going to have a huge amount of noise
to sift through.. :(

i suspect that the problem is that occasionally sendmail takes a long time
to fork. Any ways to pre-spawn sendmail processes? 

uhmm.. i'll try getting rid of confSEPARATE_PROC...

> Later,
> Kenn
> 
> 
> 





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