mcgough@logdis3.wr.aflc.af.mil (Jeffrey B. McGough) (11/17/90)
I recently got nntp patch level 3 up and running on a 3B2/600G SVR3.2
what a pain in the *ss. when I first got it running I got this
error when a client connected and tried to post a message.
Nov 16 17:18:45 localhost nntpd[17181]: spawn: wait pid 17210: No child processes
Nov 16 17:18:51 localhost nntpd[17181]: spawn: wait pid 17211: No child processes
I tracked the problems down to the fork that execs inews dieing
but not zombieing for the parent to wait for...
I tracked dow the code causing this is was setting signal SIGCLD to
SIG_IGN bad thing to to very bad. so the wait in spawn would fail
every time... well I comment out that code and everything worked fine.
UNTIL I upgraded to nntp patch level 10
I am now getting the same error I checked the SIGCLD settings and
commented them out but to no avail...
This is very frustrating....
I wish it was BSD...[:^)
Please any help would be appreciated...
thanks, thanks, thanks,
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Jeffrey B. McGough
WR-ALC UNIX Systems Administrator (mcgough@logdis3.wr.aflc.af.mil)