From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13065 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jan Vroonhof Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: WTF, sleep-for? Date: 28 Nov 1997 11:45:22 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152495 7242 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:21:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:21:35 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA18423 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 02:58:21 -0800 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA27666 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 05:01:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAH10297; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 04:48:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 28 Nov 1997 04:46:30 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA10283 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 04:46:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 28862 invoked by uid 504); 28 Nov 1997 10:46:11 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 28859 invoked from network); 28 Nov 1997 10:46:08 -0000 Original-Received: from frege-d-math-north-g-west.math.ethz.ch (HELO frege.math.ethz.ch) (root@129.132.145.3) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 28 Nov 1997 10:46:08 -0000 Original-Received: from midget (vroonhof@midget [129.132.145.4]) by frege.math.ethz.ch (8.6.12/Main-STAT-mailer) with ESMTP id LAA16202 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 11:45:56 +0100 Original-Received: (vroonhof@localhost) by midget (SMI-8.6/D-MATH-client) id LAA15480; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 11:45:23 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Thor Kristoffersen's message of "27 Nov 1997 15:34:46 -0100" Original-Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13065 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13065 Thor Kristoffersen writes: > Sheer luck. I wasn't so lucky, though; not long ago one system > administrator kindly pointed out to me that I had about 30 old telnet > processes lying around on a heavily loaded server. They were all left > there by `nntp-open-rlogin'. Well it seems to me that there must be something wrong. I am not a unix internals guru, but seems to me that the telnet must get terminated at the time where NNTP server closed the connection because of timeout and it tries to write "remote has closes connection" to the nonexistent socket connection. Jan