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Re: process leak?

2003-10-16 02:33:38
Vicki Brown wrote:

Before you _deliberately_ cc: me again, please take the time to
note the simple request in my .sig, and that the Reply-To: is set
>> that way for a reason.

Having a bad day are we?

Seems a simple enough request to me.

Well, there's a little clue.  That one user is obviously doing
>> something improperly.

Not that I can see. His .procmailrc matches mine. I know because I
> copied mine to make his.

And did the user modify his .procmailrc after you copied it? Is there
anything in your .procmailrc that is specific to you're account, that
would fail when run by another user?

An experienced admin might choose to add a verbose log setting to
the

It gets too big. DOn't cast aspersions on my experience when you
don't know me.

"${daemon} keeps dieing. I could look at the log to figure
out why, but the log file gets too big, so we turn logging off. Can you
help me figure out why ${daemon} keeps dieing?"

"The log gets too big, so we won't bother with it" is a sure sign of an
INexperienced admin to me. So the log grows large. So what? You turn on
verbose logging, keep an eye on the log when the problem manifests
itself, gain clue as to cause of the problem, fix the problem, turn
off verbose logging.


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