OT: limit idle time in sendmail

[Ken A]

This might help:
http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc8.12/op-sh-4.html
Ken
Pacific.Net


Jim Dickenson wrote:
> 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.