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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

Hi Folks,

I'm having a problem - hopefully somebody might have some ideas.

Sympa 6.1.20, with postfix, amavisd, clamav.

On rare occasion, sympa.pl will die, and do so repeatedly after 
attempting to restart all the sympa processes.

In the past, the cure has been simple - stop all the processes, empty 
the queues (almost there's some message that is making something barf), 
kill any wwsympa tasks running, restart apache, restart sympa.

This time, it's not working - ques are flushed, stop everything, a 
sympa.pl process is still running (even though sympa status says it 
died), kill the process, then restart.  Sympa.pl immediately dies again 
(status shows "sympa died, pid file remains.".  Nothing in the log that 
shows anything wrong.

Any suggestions as to:

- things that might cause sympa.pl to die abnormally?

- any diagnostic tricks (higher log levels, where to set them, etc?)

Thanks very much!

Miles Fidelman

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