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From: stewart@netxcom.DHL.COM (John Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: TCP/IP daemon quits sporadically
Message-ID: <3481@netxcom.DHL.COM>
Date: 1 Feb 90 00:33:14 GMT
References: <147@cms2.UUCP> <1990Jan24.185408.2157@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Organization: NetExpress Communications, Inc.
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In article <1990Jan24.185408.2157@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@mcs.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
>What >has< happened is that smail3 (sendmail replacement) will die
>occasionally with a protocol error.  It's sitting in background, and all of
>a sudden it stops working.  Killing and restarting it fixes the problem; I'm
>not sure this is a 386/ix problem or one we have here locally :-)

I have seen a similar problem running smail3 under Xenix (which I hacked
to use the 4.1-style sockets library which is offered by Excelan).  The
daemon just dies mysteriously after running for weeks sometimes.  No
zombie, core file, or error message.  So it's not local.
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