pop3 stalls - doesnt answer

[Nils Vogels]

J.D. Bronson wrote:

> I also noticed this in the log files:
>
> [sun1] 8:34:22pm /var/log> tail cyrus.log
> Sep 21 20:34:01 sun1 pop3d[9215]: accepted connection
> Sep 21 20:34:01 sun1 master[9231]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/pop3d
> Sep 21 20:34:01 sun1 master[9048]: process 9215 exited, status 75
>
>
> so...pop3d tries to execute and then dies with status 75.
>
> any clues?
>

Taken from /usr/include/sysexits.h:

#define EX_TEMPFAIL     75      /* temp failure; user is invited to retry */

Could it be that your machine is running into some resource issues, such 
as amount of concurrent open files maybe ?

Greetings,

Nils.