Date:  Sun, 2 Jul 2006 00:11:40 +0200
From:  Michael Stauber <bq (at mark) solarspeed.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:05929] Re: Help! [MailScanner] <defunct>
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <200607020011.40604.bq (at mark) solarspeed.net>
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Hi Arthur,

> 'ps aux' shows this and mail doesn't flow:
> ---
> root      2989  0.0  0.3  9456 3364 ?        Ss   22:27   0:00 sendmail:
> accepting connections
> smmsp     2999  0.0  0.2  8196 2804 ?        Ss   22:27   0:00 sendmail:
> Queue runner@01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
> root      3171  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    22:30   0:00
> [MailScanner] <defunct>
> root      3172  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    22:30   0:00
> [MailScanner] <defunct>
> root      3173  0.2  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    22:30   0:00
> [MailScanner] <defunct>
> ---
>
> What to do?
>
> Please help!

killall -9 MailScanner
(To kill off those processes)

ps axf|grep MailScanner
(To check if they're still running)

If you still see MailScanner processes afterwards, kill them manually with ...
kill -9 <PID> 
... where <PID> is the process ID.

Once each and any MailScanner process has been killed, start MailScanner 
again.

-- 

With best regards,

Michael Stauber