[toaster] Multi-log going into a Zombie State

[Stephen Harmon]

Hello all,   Last night I tried to make qmail-smtp listen on another port.  I was successful in having it listen on 25 and 2525, however, run into a problem when multilog tries to rotate the logs.  The following is what I did to qmail-smtpd:   "I made  a /service/qmail-smtpd2525 directory and copied everything from /service/qmail-smtpd over to it. Then I modified the run file, changing the "smtp" word in there to 2525.  I also set the same permissions that /service/qmail-smtpd had to /service/qmail-smtpd2525."   This works but I get the following when I do a "ps -eaf | grep qmail*"   root      1900  1897  0 Feb24 ?        00:00:01 readproctitle service errors: ...al: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail/smtpd: temporary failure?multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail/smtpd: temporary failure?multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail/smtpd: temporary failure?multil root      1901  1899  0 Feb24 ?        00:00:00 supervise qmail-send root      1903  1899  0 Feb24 ?        00:00:00 supervise qmail-smtpd root      1905  1899  0 Feb24 ?        00:00:00 supervise qmail-pop3d root      1907  1899  0 Feb24 ?        00:00:00 supervise qmail-pop3ds qmaill    1915  1902  0 Feb24 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail qmaill    1916  1904  0 Feb24 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd qmaill    1920  1906  0 Feb24 ?        00:00:01 multilog t /var/log/qmail/pop3d qmaill    1921  1908  0 Feb24 ?        00:00:00 multilog t /var/log/qmail/pop3ds root     31730  1899  0 Feb29 ?        00:00:00 supervise qmail-smtpd2525 qmails   31985  1901  0 Feb29 ?        00:00:00 [qmail-send] root     31987 31985  0 Feb29 ?        00:00:00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/ qmailr   31988 31985  0 Feb29 ?        00:00:00 [qmail-rspawn] qmailq   31989 31985  0 Feb29 ?        00:00:00 [qmail-clean] qmaill    6421 31735  0 12:16 ?        00:00:00 [multilog <defunct>] vpopmail  6422 12640  0 12:16 ?        00:00:00 [qmail-popup] vpopmail  6423  6422  0 12:16 ?        00:00:00 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir root      6425  3932  0 12:16 pts/0    00:00:00 grep qmail*   You can see that readproctile is unable to lock /var/log/qmail/smtpd.  Once I removed the /service/qmail-smtpd2525 directory and restarted qmail, all is well as it has been.  I would like to still do this but don't want multilog going into a defunct stat.  Is there anyway around this?   Any help would be great.   Stephen