[Mimedefang] defunct defang processes

[Ali Rahmanzadeh]

On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 23:39, John Nemeth wrote:
> On Jul 25, 12:40pm, Ali Rahmanzadeh wrote:
> }
> } 	I have installed sendmail/mimedefang/spamassasin on a solaris system.
> } It seems to be working OK, but some of the defang processes created by
> } the mimedefang program stay around even the mail for which the process
> } was created has been processed and it's subdirectory in
> } /var/spool/MIMEDefang has been removed. These processes are marked as
> } defunct. 
> 
>      Hmm, this is interesting.  I'm seeing the same thing on NetBSD
> 2.0.  Since this is the first release of NetBSD with native pthreads, I
> thought it was an OS issue, but maybe not.  I ended up writing a script
> that uses md-mx-ctrl slaves to find out which slaves MIMEDefang knows
> about and kill the rest, which is run periodically from cron.
> 
Thanks John, In the absence of a fix this seems a reasonable solution. I
will do the same.

Cheers
Ali