[Mimedefang] mimedefang.sock error

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 17:47, Mail Administrator wrote:
> Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> > Could you send the following extra info to the list just so that people 
> > can help:
> At this point, it is back to working. I shutdown sendmail and let it sit 
> for a couple minutes (after Googling and finding a relevant entry in the 
> comp.mail.sendmail archives) and when sendmail restarted it magically 
> started working again.
> 
> Now, the only question is, "Why did it fall down in the first place?".
> 
> -Loren

Magical things like this are usually a sendmail or mimedefang process
that didnt clean itself up fast enough. If it happens again, do a ps
-auxww  and look for any Z or D mimedefang/sendmail processes.

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