Hello! socks5 is useless without thread. It looks like it is designed to use threads by default. Without '--with-threads" and proper linking it leaves zombie-processes.
diff below: --- Makefile Sun Sep 16 01:30:01 2007 +++ /home/en/Makefile.new Fri Oct 19 00:44:56 2007 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ PERMIT_PACKAGE_FTP= commercial PERMIT_DISTFILES_CDROM= commercial PERMIT_DISTFILES_FTP= commercial -WANTLIB= c termcap +WANTLIB= c termcap pthread # here are some extra configure args you may wish to use # see the readme file before screwing with them @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ --with-srvconffile="${SYSCONFDIR}/socks5.conf" \ --with-srvpidfile="/var/run/socks5.pid" \ --with-srvidtfile="/var/run/socks5.ident" \ + --with-threads \ ${EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS} MAKE_ENV= INSTALL_RUNSOCKS="${INSTALL_RUNSOCKS}" Best regards Maxim Bourmistrov mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tfn.: +46735461332