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[Jeff Abbott <address@concealed>]

On Feb 9, 2006, at 10:51 AM, Steve Sargent wrote:

> But after a reboot of the machine we get:-
>
> sympa   507     1  0 17:27:49 ?        0:00 /bin/perl /usr/local/ 
> sympa/bin/archived.pl
> sympa   512     1  0 17:27:53 ?        0:00 /bin/perl /usr/local/ 
> sympa/bin/bounced.pl
> sympa   502     1  0 17:27:45 ?        0:01 /bin/perl /usr/local/ 
> sympa/bin/sympa.pl
> sympa   489   488  0 17:27:30 ?        0:04 /bin/perl -U /dev/fd/3
> sympa   491   488  0 17:27:31 ?        0:04 /bin/perl -U /dev/fd/3
>
> Does anyone know what those two extra processes are at the end?

What platform are you running this one (in other words, what flavor  
of ps are you using:  SysV or BSD)?  I suspect those are the FastCGI  
runners for wwsympa.  On our Linux (CentOS 4) Sympa server I get:

  $ ps -aef | grep sym
  sympa    11114     1  0 Feb08 pts/0    00:00:05 /usr/bin/perl /usr/ 
sbin/sympa.pl
  sympa    11122     1  0 Feb08 pts/0    00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/ 
sbin/archived.pl
  sympa    11129     1  0 Feb08 pts/0    00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/ 
sbin/bounced.pl
  sympa    11136     1  0 Feb08 pts/0    00:00:02 /usr/bin/perl /usr/ 
sbin/task_manager.pl
  sympa    13003 13000  0 04:02 ?        00:00:08 /usr/bin/perl -U / 
dev/fd/3//var/www/cgi-bin/wwsympa.fcgi

I've explicitly limited mod_fastcgi to spawning one runner process,  
but it looks like yours is doing two -- nothing necessarily wrong  
with that, but maybe the devs could comment on whether any number of  
them is better than any other number.  It does somewhat concern me  
that task_manager.pl isn't running for you after a machine reboot,  
though...

Thanks,
Jeff

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