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- From: miguel@boytoy.csd.sgi.com (Michael/Miguel Sanchez)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin
- Subject: Re: Runaway sendmail!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.024039.10794@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 02:40:39 GMT
- References: <C17xuE.JM2@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- In article <C17xuE.JM2@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, dpape@imlab (Daniel X Pape) writes:
- |> I looked at a ps -e listing of the current processes...
- |>
- |> and there were at least 25 sendmail processes running.
- |>
- |> What could cause sendmail to be run more than once? I thought that
- |> the only place that sendmail was invoked was by init on startup.
- |>
- |> I've rebooted the machine a few times, and this doesn't seem to help.
- |> Killing all but one of the processes doesn't work either.
- |>
- |>
- |> OH-- also when running osview.... there are alway around 60-70 graphics
- |> interrupts every second, and about 250-300 system interrupts a second.
- |> EVEN when the machine is just sitting there with only one user!!
- |>
- |>
- |> Problems... Problems...
- |>
- |>
- |>
- |> Dan Pape
-
-
- if you have not configured the sendmail program configuration file (/usr/lib/sendmail.cf), you can have runaway sendmail, ie sendmail
- continues spawning other sendmails trying to deliver undeliverable
- mail.
-
- if you think this is the case, I suggest the following...
-
- 1) Stop the mail system with
-
- /usr/init.d/mail stop
-
- 2) clear out the /usr/spool/mqueue directory of all
- the current mail pending.
-
- 3) configure sendmail (/usr/lib/sendmail.cf)
-
- 4) restart mail with
-
- /usr/init.d/mail start
-
-
-
- --
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Miguel (Michael) J. Sanchez
- miguel@csd.sgi.com
- Member Technical Staff, Silicon Graphics, Inc.
-