[toaster] zombies

[Andy Drexler]

Toaster Friends -

First, thanks for all your help with my blacklisting problem at AOL a 
few weeks back. For anyone else whose server improperly ends up on 
AOL's blacklist, you can reach their postmaster at 888 212 5537 . It 
took many calls to get this number, but they are pretty responsive, if 
somewhat limited in what they can actually do to solve the problem.

My problem today is different. My toaster seems to be accumulating 
zombie processes of qmail-queue. this machine has been running for over 
a year, and this hasn't cropped up before. nothing new has been added 
to the mix. I tried to kill the zombies from the command line, but they 
seem impervious to a kill -9 attack. are these creating a problem? any 
ideas how to get rid of them?

I'm not sure if it is related, but I also seem to have an issue with 
the server accepting outgoing mail. Users are reporting trouble 
connecting to send out messages (incoming mail does not seem to be 
effected). any ideas?

Thanks again fro all your help.

Andy Drexler