Re: HELP???

[Eugene Crosser <crosser@roline.ru>]

> > 3) if I run smtpserver as a regular deamon then it seems to die every now
> >    and then. I do not know why and there seems to be no identifying marks
> >    left in the logfile.
> 
> 	I see this also.  On Linux kernels 1.1.72 thru 1.2.1.
> 	I suspect it to be more of Linux problem, than application one.
> 
> 
> 	At the moment I am trying to figure out, what is wrong with
> 	the scheduler.  It can loose its mind pretty easily, though
> 	so far I have been unable to trigger memory corruption :-/

Ensure that you have removed the line starting with 'smtp' from the
/etc/inetd.conf.  Any TCP services won't work with recent Linux kernels
if you try to start them as standalone daemons _and_ from inetd.

Eugene