| Subject: (2.6) HP-UX tips |
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Q. My logs keep telling me there is no space for articles A. Edit innwatch.ctl to use "bdf" instead of "df". Q. I am running inn on an HP machine. INN won't start up automatically. I can start it manually. There is no problem with news or INN once it is started. A. Try adding a "sleep 10" to the bottom of /etc/rc.news, or in /etc/rc, right after /etc/rc.news is invoked. On some machines, including HP, the shell started by "#!/bin/sh" when /etc/rc is executed will exit before innd has disassociated itself from that shell. This causes innd to exit, sometimes without printing an error message. (source: pjoslin@mbvlab.wpafb.af.mil (Paul Joslin )) This problem goes away if you set HAVE_SETSID to "DO". Something to do with Posix Session Leader concepts. Ick. (source: Steve Howie <showie@uoguelph.ca>). You can also do something like: echo /usr/lib/etc/rc.news | at now + 2 minutesor else nohup su news -c /usr/local/etc/rc.news&HP-UX 8.x and 9.x users might find a problem with getting innwatch to start up. People have found that having "at" start it seems to work more reliably than other methods: ${DOINNWATCH} && {
echo "${INNWATCH} &" | su ${NEWSUSER} -c 'at now + 2 min' > /dev/null
}
The '&' in the command line prevents innwatch from taking up an at-job slot. SysV-style crons have a per-category and overall limit on the number of jobs executing simultaneously. Q: INN-1.4sec running on an HP9000 s700 with HP-UX 9.01 leaks memory like crazy. The innd process grows and grows, then stops with: "ME cant remalloc 8192 bytes Not enough space"A: The cause turns out to be a memory leak in the standard C library (both /lib/libc.a and /lib/libc.sl). Installed patch PHCO_5056 (or the latest libc patch). ------------------------------ [Last Changed: $Date: 1997/09/23 01:25:52 $ $Revision: 2.34 $] [Copyright: 1997 Heiko Rupp, portions by Tom Limoncelli, Rich Salz, et al.] |