Sendmail

[Julian Field]

At 17:24 22/02/2002, you wrote:
>Sendmail seems to start several instances every once and a while.
>
>???
>
>root     26142  0.1  0.7 2760 1696 ?        S 12:22:02  0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail
>root     25815  0.0  0.8 2720 1816 ?        S 12:13:23  0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail
>root     25817  0.0  0.6 2696 1384 ?        S 12:13:23  0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail
>root     26141  0.0  0.8 2728 1840 ?        S 12:22:02  0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail
>
>Is this due to its own processes or mailscanner?

See responses on this topic to the "File unlinking problem" thread.
This is normally due to its own processes. All of them should be children
of 1 of the 2 main sendmail processes running.
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