Dear All,
Overnight we had a problem with inetd, and I think there were some DNS
timeouts which had various knock-on effects. Most things started working
again when I restarted inetd, but we have a couple of users who are
died-in-the-wool xmh users and xmh hangs as soon as it tries to
incorporate new mail. It creates 'inc' processes which cannot be
killed...if you use kill -9 they become defunct.
It looks to me like a locking problem. Does anyone know a way of
clearing whatever locks inc uses? The mail spool is on an NFS file system.
Bob
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Bob Vickers R.Vickers_at_cs.rhul.ac.uk
Dept of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
WWW:
http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/bobv
Phone: +44 1784 443691
Received on Fri Mar 30 2001 - 13:24:18 NZST