[Mimedefang] Hanging processes...

[David F. Skoll]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, J.P van Oyen wrote:


> Has anyone seen this effect :
> Running killall mimedefang :
> defang     184  0.0  0.1  3676  768 ?        S    Aug01   0:01
> /usr/local/bin/mimedefang -P /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.pid -m
> defang     185  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Aug01   0:03 [mimedefang]
> <defunct>
> Now I need to kill -9 184 to get all removed....

Yes, I have seen that effect.  I think it's a bug in Linux's pthreads
implementation.  Just change the script to do a kill -9 on mimedefang
instead of a regular kill.

--
David.