[Mimedefang] Hanging processes...

[G. Roderick Singleton]

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 17:15, David F. Skoll wrote:
> 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.

Another possible source of failure under RH is that the user forgot to
copy mimedefang-sysconfig to /etc/sysconfig/mimedefang. I did and had
similar symptoms until I did this.
-- 
Gerry Roderick Singleton <gerry at pathtech.org>
416-452-4583