Hey,

I'm using spampd as a proxy for incoming SMTP connections to filter and tag spam before it gets to my exchange server. This works well, when it is working. However occasionaly it stops making the proxy connection. At least I think thats whats happening When it "hangs" I can still telnet to it and it accepts my connection but I don't get the banner from my actual SMTP server, in fact i don't get any banner at all.

The reason I'm asking here is because spampd is a perl script that uses Net::Server::PreForkSimple and I'm hoping someone will recognize this problem, or have some idea how i can at least force it to revive itself when it gets in this state.

When it begins behaving like this I see 

Jan  8 18:43:50 SPAM2 spampd[19137]: WARNING!! Error in process_reques
+t eval block: Child server process timed out!

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in the logs. Restarting the process solves the problem and it works agian.


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Eric Hodges

In reply to spampd hangs occasionaly by eric256

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