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In article <C17xuE.JM2@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, dpape@imlab (Daniel X Pape) writes:
|> I looked at a ps -e listing of the current processes...
|> 
|> and there were at least 25 sendmail processes running.
|> 
|> What could cause sendmail to be run more than once? I thought that
|> the only place that sendmail was invoked was by init on startup.
|> 
|> I've rebooted the machine a few times, and this doesn't seem to help.
|> Killing all but one of the processes doesn't work either.
|> 
|> 
|> OH-- also when running osview.... there are alway around 60-70 graphics
|> interrupts every second, and about 250-300 system interrupts a second.
|> EVEN when the machine is just sitting there with only one user!!
|> 
|> 	
|> 	Problems... Problems...
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> Dan Pape


if you have not configured the sendmail program configuration file (/usr/lib/sendmail.cf), you can have runaway sendmail, ie sendmail
continues spawning other sendmails trying to deliver undeliverable 
mail.

if you think this is the case, I suggest the following...

	1) Stop the mail system with 

		/usr/init.d/mail stop 

	2) clear out the /usr/spool/mqueue directory of all 
		the current mail pending.

	3) configure sendmail (/usr/lib/sendmail.cf)

	4) restart mail with

		/usr/init.d/mail start



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