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Re: Exim creates a zombie



Jens Kubieziel wrote:

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 07:57:31PM +0200, Hans Wilmer wrote:

Jens Kubieziel wrote:

kubi@QBI050102:~$ sudo exim -bV
Exim version 3.36 #1 built 12-Mar-2003 20:59:47

kubi@QBI050102:~$ ps ax | grep Z
308 ?        Z      0:00 [sendmail] <defunct>

Why does exim create a zombie process?

Why is sendmail running?


kubi@QBI050102:~$ sudo ls -la /usr/sbin/sendmail lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2003-04-06 20:44 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> exim

But exim usually runs as exim, not as sendmail.

Hm, I would try to rename the link and then to recreate the zombie process.
At some point, I´d expect to get some error message that sendmail cannot be
found or something like that. This might lead you to the place where the
sendmail processes are created and thereby to where the zombies come from.


GH






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