When initializing OpenWebMail Perl application I've got this error message from kernel (2.4.21-9.0.1.EL): application bug: perl5.8.0(16102) has SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls wait(). (see the NOTES section of 'man 2 wait'). Workaround activated. This seems to be a Perl bug. The initial creation of *.db files take looong time, probably because this bug. The command was (just after installation of OpenWebMail RPM package): /usr/share/openwebmail/cgi-bin/openwebmail-tool.pl --init I have OpenWebMail and related modules in my yum repository, you may try them from here: ftp://ftp.vslib.cz/pub/local/milan.kerslager/RHEL-3/RPMS/ http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/people/milan_kerslager/RHEL-3/RPMS/ OpenWebMail has homepage here: http://openwebmail.org
this is an issue with the program itself and not perl. check the sources of OpenWebMail to find if they are setting the signal that way. it is reporting as a perl issue since the perl script uses the perl executable, but it is the program causing issues and not perl itself. this is detailed in the 'man 2 wait' manpage. Search for SIG_IGN.