problem with inn 2.3

[Russ Allbery]

Alexander Koch <efraim at sonic.de> writes:

> We are running a "INN 2.3.1 (20010114 prerelease)" and right now it
> refused to start. After "rc.news start" as news it sits there, waiting
> for some select() like follows:

> -->
> select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)
> select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)
> select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)
> select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0})     = 0 (Timeout)
> <--

Which process is this a truss of?  That's a pure one-second delay loop,
and I don't believe innd has such a loop that it can reach before it will
log at least some startup messages to syslog.  However, rc.news *does*
call sleep before starting several other processes, so if you're getting
the wrong process in truss, you could see something like that.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>