Re: cron and runq problems

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Peter Tobias writes ("Re: cron and runq problems"):
> I have the same problem but I'll only get these zombies when I start
> a PPP or SLIP connection. Without such a connection I don't have these
> zombies (it probably tries to deliver the local mail using the SLIP/PPP
> connection).

That is very odd.  Are you sure you have it configured correctly ?
What is the debugging output ?

Smail won't try to delivery something locally after attempting to make
an offsite delivery, because it splits addresses into local and remote
very early on.

Ian.