Package: sympa Version: 5.3.4-5.2 Severity: normal Usertags: bad-daemon Hi,
When sympa is running as a daemon, it keeps open file descriptors for the terminal. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# lsof -a -c sympa.pl -c archived.pl -c task_manager.pl -c bounced.pl +D /dev/pts COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME archived. 8906 sympa 0u CHR 136,1 3 /dev/pts/1 task_mana 8923 sympa 0u CHR 136,1 3 /dev/pts/1 bounced.p 8933 sympa 0u CHR 136,1 3 /dev/pts/1 I think that there is no reason why a daemon should keep the terminal open. It's not very annoying when the daemon is run on startup by init. But when it is run over a SSH session, then the SSH session will not close gracefully, which is quite annoying. Simply adding "</dev/null" to the start-stop-daemon calls in /etc/init.d/sympa would probably solve the problem. Cheers, Nicolas -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-irma (PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages sympa depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.23 Debian configuration management sy ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.18-1 Module for manipulation of ZIP arc ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcgi-fast-perl 5.10.0-14 CGI::Fast Perl module ii libcrypt-ciphersaber-perl 0.61-4 Perl module implementing CipherSab ii libdbd-mysql-perl 4.008-1 A Perl5 database interface to the ii libdbi-perl 1.607-1 Perl5 database interface by Tim Bu ii libintl-perl 1.16-4 Uniforum message translations syst ii libio-stringy-perl 2.110-4 Perl modules for IO from scalars a ii libmailtools-perl 2.04-1 Manipulate email in perl programs ii libmd5-perl 2.03-1 backwards-compatible wrapper for D ii libmime-charset-perl 1.006.2-2 Charset Informations for MIME ii libmime-encwords-perl 1.010.101-1 deal with RFC-1522 encoded words ii libmime-perl 5.427-1 transitional dummy package ii libmime-tools-perl [libmime- 5.427-1 Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant m ii libmsgcat-perl 1.03-4+b1 Locale::Msgcat perl module ii libnet-ldap-perl 1:0.37-1 A Client interface to LDAP servers ii libtemplate-perl 2.20-1 template processing system written ii libxml-libxml-perl 1.66-1+b1 Perl module for using the GNOME li ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii mhonarc 2.6.16-1 Mail to HTML converter ii perl [libmime-base64-perl] 5.10.0-14 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-suid 5.10.0-14 Runs setuid Perl scripts ii ssmtp [mail-transport-agent] 2.62-1 extremely simple MTA to get mail o ii sysklogd [system-log-daemon] 1.5-5 System Logging Daemon Versions of packages sympa recommends: ii doc-base 0.8.16 utilities to manage online documen ii logrotate 3.7.1-3 Log rotation utility Versions of packages sympa suggests: pn apache2 | httpd-cgi <none> (no description available) pn libapache2-mod-fcgid <none> (no description available) pn libsoap-lite-perl <none> (no description available) ii mysql-server 5.0.51a-15 MySQL database server (metapackage ii mysql-server-5.0 [mysql-serve 5.0.51a-15 MySQL database server binaries pn openssl <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: sympa/key_password_again: (password omitted) * sympa/db_passwd: (password omitted) * sympa/db_passwd_again: (password omitted) sympa/key_password: (password omitted) * sympa/db_adminpasswd: (password omitted) * sympa/use_db: true sympa/db_removeonpurge: false sympa/use_soap: false wwsympa/webserver_type: Apache 2 * sympa/listmaster: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wwsympa/wwsympa_url: wwsympa/webserver_restart: true wwsympa/remove_spool: false * sympa/hostname: irma.home * sympa/db_options: * sympa/db_user: sympa sympa/wwsympa_configured: false * sympa/db_name: sympa wwsympa/fastcgi: false * sympa/db_type: MySQL * sympa/db_configured: true * sympa/use_wwsympa: false * sympa/db_hostname: localhost sympa/db_authtype: Ident-based sympa/language: en_US sympa/db_port: sympa/remove_spool: false * sympa/smime_support: false -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
