On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 18:06:34 CST, Steve Price <[log in to unmask]>  said:
> #!/bin/sh
> ps -awx | grep lsv | grep -v grep
> if [ $? = 1 ]; then
>     cd /home/listserv
>     ./go bg
>     date | mail -s 'listserv is down' [log in to unmask]
> fi
>
> Has anyone had similar problems running 1.8d on a RedHat 6.2 box?
> The box is a dual-capable PIII-600MHz with 1GB of RAM and 1GB of
> swap.  This box is also primary mail and secondary DNS for about
> 500 domains, hosts a handful of SSL sites, and runs a single
> instance of listserv.  As can be seen from the first few lines of
> a typical top(1) output this box is far from being overutilized.

Most likely, the 'lsv' process is running with a too-low ulimit
value for something.  On AIX, the offender was 'data seg size' -
the default value of 128M was too low.  Other places likely to
trip up are the ulimits for max memory size and cpy time...

                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech