Help: waiting for children to die: Process did not exit cleanly

[Matt Hampton]

Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 23/01/07, Kimpton, C (Chris) <Chris.Kimpton at rabobank.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> > And it isn't moving things out of the incoming queue into the outgoing
>> queue qt all?
>>
>> I don't think so - but my knowledge of sendmail is not that deep - mailq
>> and mailq -Ac both say the queues are empty and they seem to be
>> reporting on the same queues that my sendmail processes say they are
>> using.
> 
> Ok, I'm certainly no Sendmail guru, but I think those are both looking
> ath the "post MailScanner" queue.
> 

Yep - the non Sendmail guru has it right:

# mailq

shows mail waiting for delivery

# mailq -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in

will show the email waiting for processing (assuming that you have used
the default paths for MailScanner)

matt