zombie means the process died but its parent process didn't stick around
long enough to clean up after it. This shouldn't be there. How are you
calling qmail-start?
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, jarrid jeeby wrote:
> Dave,
>
> The only suspicion I have left is what I see running on my box. Why is
> "(qmail-start <zombie>)" running as user qmaill? What is meant by "zombie"
> and why does this process not appear in the example within section 5.6.1 of
> LWQmail?
>
> The other discrepancies are the process owners:
>
> "/var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3" running as root
> (in example, splogger runs as qmaill)
>
> "tcpserver ... qmail-smtpd" running as root
> (in example, tcpserver w/o supervise runs as qmaild)
>
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