Ok, I have resolved the <defunct> problem, which was cuased by not having enough available database connections. Alas, openser still doesn't create /var/run/openser.pid file
On 2/27/06, Klaus Darilion <klaus.mailinglists@pernau.at> wrote:
Script Head wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a generic setup of openser 1.0.1 compiled with the PostgreSQL
> module on Slackware 10.2 and looks like all the modules load right.
>
> When I run it in the no-fork debug mode it works fine. When I set it to
> fork, it doesn't write the /var/run/openser.pid file and I have a 8
> [openser] <defunct> processes running.
>
> I start it like so ./openser -f /etc/openser/openser.conf -P
> /var/run/openser.pid
>
> Where should I start looking?
increase the debug level (debug=4) and wath the syslog messages
tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep -v qm_
regards
klaus