limit idle time in sendmail

[Steve Campbell]

Sorry for my post just a few minutes ago. Same thing going on, but was 
writing mine while this came in. Everyone can just ignore mine and I'll 
follow this one.

Amazing, how that works sometimes.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Dickenson" <dickenson at cfmc.com>
To: "MailScanner Mail List" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 9:55 AM
Subject: OT: limit idle time in sendmail


>I have sendmail configured to limit the number of children to 150. What I 
>am
> seeing is most of the children are dealing with connections that get 
> opened
> but not closed. This causes sendmail to reject connections because the 
> limit
> of children has been reached. Is there any option to limit how long a 
> child
> will leave the connection open basically in idle state?
>
> These have been around for about an hour:
>
> root      6287  3674  0 05:54 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: server
> [221.233.250.108] cmd read
> root      6288  3674  0 05:54 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: server
> [59.39.215.19] cmd read
> root      6307  3674  0 05:54 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: server
> [219.131.108.243] cmd read
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
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> Jim Dickenson
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