LOTS of sendmail processes

[Jim Holland]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Andy Norris wrote:

> When I issue a service sendmail restart command, I get nine pids 
> immediately, and it goes up from there. Way up most of the time.

Why not show us the results of "ps ax | grep sendmail" before and after 
the restart so we can see what is happening?
 
> I have lots of email that is not being scanned by MailScanner at all, 
> and it's just the last few days this has been happening.
 
Regards

Jim Holland
System Administrator
MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service