[Mimedefang] Problems with SpamAssassin 3.1 RC1and MIMEDefang

[David F. Skoll]

Nels Lindquist wrote:

>>Aug 24 09:26:33 aerodrome mimedefang-multiplexor[32444]: Slave 7 (pid
>>680) taking way too long to exit; sending SIGKILL  

> After the SIGKILL the process stays in a zombie state until 
> MIMEDefang is restarted.

Ah, well.  If SIGKILL won't kill it, then something very bad is
happening.  I've only seen that happen when something is stuck in
a disk-wait state, or in a state where it's trying to open some kind
of device like a printer or tape drive, and is stuck somewhere deep in
the kernel.

Regards,

David.