[Mimedefang] defunct defang processes
John Nemeth
jnemeth at victoria.tc.ca
Mon Mar 7 10:14:42 EST 2005
On Jun 22, 8:58pm, "David F. Skoll" wrote:
} On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, John Nemeth 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.
}
} That doesn't make too much sense. Are you seeing defunct "mimedefang"
} threads, or defunct "mimedefang.pl" Perl processes? If the former, then
The latter, mimedefang.pl processes. Unlike Linux, NetBSD doesn't
show threads as if they are seperate processes.
}-- End of excerpt from "David F. Skoll"
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