On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Ken Murchison wrote: > >Linux, Debian Woody/Stable....and no. Cyrmaster notes it's taking the > >connections and handing them off, spawning the pop3 processes (proxy or > >not, doesn't matter) but they just never banner, and hang forever....
Looks like the APOP problem alright... Debian's SASL likes /dev/random for some stupid reason (it *really* should be using /dev/urandom, since it is not generating any strong-crypto permanent keys...). > If you know for a fact that master is taking the connection and pop3d is > spawned, then its either waiting for entropy for the APOP challenge, or > you're getting bit by the old process accounting bug (unfortunately I > can't remember exactly how this bug manifested itself or when it was fixed). Fixed in early, 2.2 and Debian's 2.1.16-8 or thereabouts (for very high forkrates). Older patches were sent to this list, and are in Debian since 2.1.14 or even earlier... but these will NOT cope with very high forkrates well. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
