[Mailman-Users] fork bomb every night from mailman crons

Richard Barrett r.barrett at openinfo.co.uk
Sat Aug 23 21:32:21 CEST 2003


On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 03:11  pm, Jens Gutzeit wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The next problem:
>
> Every night we have a forkbomb from mailman processes
What does this technical term mean?
>  (the scripts that gets
> started by cron). If I start them by hand all is well so it's a bit 
> difficult
> to debug.
>
> I want to attach strace to the process when it comes up this night, 
> but before
> I do this, just want to ask if there is a better way to debug this? 
> I'm not
> very familiar with python.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jens





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