Re: sendmail 8.9.0

scratch (scratch@ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be)
Wed, 27 May 1998 09:42:42 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 27 May 1998, Ben Castricum wrote:

> * accept() problem on Linux.
> Apparently, the accept() in sendmail daemon loop can return ETIMEDOUT
> and cause sendmail to sleep for 5 seconds during which time no new
> connections will be accepted. An error is reported to syslog:
> Jun 9 17:14:12 hostname sendmail[207]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
> getrequests: accept: Connection timed out
> "Connection timed out" is not documented as a valid return from
> accept(2) and this is believed to be a bug in the Linux kernel.

As you mention it, I often see these error messages in my syslog, but i
thought this was a configuration error with sendmail.

-- Nico Galoppo

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