Bill Shupp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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 qmailadmin (one version out of date).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 > > Thanks Bill, should I reply to the list or you or both, what's your policy? I shut down qmail, can't kill 'em, but if I restart qmail, they reppear... new ones though, with new pid's. running on redhat 7.3 with all the latest patches and security fixes.
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