[Mimedefang] defunct defang processes

Ali Rahmanzadeh ahr at acl.icnet.uk
Mon Mar 7 09:40:52 EST 2005


On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 13:50, David F. Skoll wrote:

> That doesn't make too much sense.  Are you seeing defunct "mimedefang"
> threads, or defunct "mimedefang.pl" Perl processes?  If the former, then
> doing anything with md-mx-ctrl is useless, because the mimedefang threads
> are controlled by libmilter, and the multiplexor knows nothing about them.
> 
> If you're seeing defunct mimedefang.pl slaves, then there's a serious
> bug somewhere -- the multiplexor is supposed to catch SIGCHLD and reap
> terminated slaves.  I strongly doubt this is failing, because if it
> were failing, the multiplexor would eventually fail completely because
> it would be unwilling to start new slaves.  If a slave hasn't been
> reaped yet, the multiplexor thinks it's still running.
> 
In my case the defunct 'defang' processes are subprocesses of mimedefang
process and you are right the multiplexor doesn't know anything about
these.

Cheers
Ali






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