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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!ix.netcom.com!baron.netcom.net.uk!netcom.net.uk!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!infeed1.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsgate.ptd.net!user2.ptd.net!dstevens From: PTD-000440 <dstevens@ptdprolog.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Sendmail behaving wierd. Need some advice. Date: 15 Jul 1997 13:58:17 GMT Organization: ProLog - PenTeleData, Inc. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970715095132.4009A-100000@user1.ptd.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: user1.ptd.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: dstevens@user1.ptd.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44459 I'm running a 2.1.5R box (I know i am about to upgrade to 2.2.2) and sendmail has just recently started to behave badly. Here is the problem. I have about 111 unkilled sendmail processes ranging from : sendmail: running queue: /var/spool/mqueue (sendmail) to things like: sendmail: JAA16254 home.gis.net.: client RCPT (sendmail) Like I said I have 111 of these processes. They aren't taking up memory nor cpu time as far as I can tell. They have been open for a few days now. This happened over the 4th of July and I just killed them all hoping they wouldn't come back. They did. So I was just wondering where I should start in tracking done this oddity. Any help would be greatly appreciated. dave