I am running exim 2.04 on Solaris 2.51. I have it started via
/etc/rc.2/S88sendmail. What I noticed is that after a short while I get
the following: What is causing this <defunct> process ??? - I don't
recall seeing this behaviour with 2.03 or 2.02.
Also, if I stop exim and restart it I always get this <defunct> process
- I am using the pid from the exim.pid file to kill the process.
Thanks.
Imran.
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ps -ef
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 0 0 0 05:09:21 ? 0:01 sched
root 1 0 0 05:09:25 ? 0:00 /etc/init -
root 2 0 0 05:09:25 ? 0:00 pageout
root 3 0 0 05:09:25 ? 0:32 fsflush
root 576 492 1 16:01:20 pts/0 0:00 ps -ef
root 113 1 0 05:09:56 ? 0:01 /usr/sbin/inetd -s
root 189 1 0 05:10:11 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -bd
-q15m
root 186 1 0 05:10:09 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/utmpd
root 232 1 0 05:10:55 console 0:01 -sh
root 562 189 0 0:00 <defunct>
root 486 113 0 15:10:24 ? 0:00 in.telnetd
root 492 488 0 15:10:34 pts/0 0:00 sh
ps -e
PID TTY TIME CMD
0 ? 0:01 sched
1 ? 0:00 init
2 ? 0:00 pageout
3 ? 0:33 fsflush
189 ? 0:00 exim
186 ? 0:00 utmpd
232 console 0:01 sh
562 0:00 <defunct>
486 ? 0:00 in.telne
492 pts/0 0:00 sh
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