On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 23:39, John Nemeth wrote: > On Jul 25, 12:40pm, Ali Rahmanzadeh wrote: > } > } I have installed sendmail/mimedefang/spamassasin on a solaris system. > } It seems to be working OK, but some of the defang processes created by > } the mimedefang program stay around even the mail for which the process > } was created has been processed and it's subdirectory in > } /var/spool/MIMEDefang has been removed. These processes are marked as > } defunct. > > Hmm, this is interesting. I'm seeing the same thing on NetBSD > 2.0. Since this is the first release of NetBSD with native pthreads, I > thought it was an OS issue, but maybe not. I ended up writing a script > that uses md-mx-ctrl slaves to find out which slaves MIMEDefang knows > about and kill the rest, which is run periodically from cron. > Thanks John, In the absence of a fix this seems a reasonable solution. I will do the same.
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