On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Philip S Tellis wrote:
>Anyway, the zombie sendmail is back and changing its pid really fast. I
>have no idea how it changes its pid. Maybe I should write a small tracker
>that will log when it happens.
If you are running sendmail as a daemon, it might be respawning regularly after
zombification (and termination of the old process). Hence the new PID, since the
old process is dead, but the new one is immediately zombified, so you don't
notice it being a new process.
Devdas Bhagat
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