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:

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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