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- From: yaron@aristo.tau.ac.il (Yaron Zabary)
- Subject: Re: Runaway sendmail!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.175456.18151@aristo.tau.ac.il>
- Organization: Tel-Aviv University Computation Center
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:54:56 GMT
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- Daniel X Pape (dpape@imlab) wrote:
- : I looked at a ps -e listing of the current processes...
-
- : and there were at least 25 sendmail processes running.
-
- Try to use the mailq command to check if there are any mail items that are
- waiting for delivery. If that is the case, it might indicate a sendmail which
- is not properly configured, a wrong address or a connectivity problem. Anyway,
- they should go away after a few minutes and start again after some time.
-
- : 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.
-
- If I am recalling correctly, there is a sendmail process for each outgoing
- mail item.
-
- : 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.
-
- Every time you reboot the machine, sendmail finds the defered mail and spawns
- itself again. See the man-page for sendmail for more details.
-
- : 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!!
-
- That doesn't seem like a high number to me.
-
- :
- : Problems... Problems...
-
-
-
- : Dan Pape
- --
-
- -- Yaron.
-