On Tuesday, August 13, 2002, at 09:27 PM, kg wrote: > hello, > > been test running a toaster for a coupla months now everythings great, > as you all > doubtless already know. i have a persistent zombie issue though. it > seems that i have one per > running qmail process (4). Persistent across reboots. this is a lightly > loaded server and > hasn't been tested hard yet. > > also, this is a vanilla install... patched for: scanner (not used yet), > ezmlm-idx (used), > latest qmail toaster patches, including maildir++ quota and all the > associated packages, > qmailadmin (one version out of date). my question is: not having > changed anything after the install > and no zombies at that time, is this a known issue? it's running on an > older dual pent 266. Hardware? > > qmail works great and i can ignore 'em. > however i am curious as to causes, and i have no preconceived notions, > any thoughts are welcome.
I've only seen this when supervise services were removed improperly. Try shutting down qmail, and see if they go away. If not, kill them and start qmail. Do they reappear? One person complained that the presence of qmailctl in the init.d directory (linked to your start up run level) caused the zombies since svscan had already started qmail. However, I could never duplicate this. Besides, that's what's recommended by LWQ. So, I followed suit with my vpopmailctl script. No qmail or vpopmail zombies here. Regards, Bill
