I have seen this behavior not only with exim. If one starts a daemon
e.g. from crontab I found that <defunct> remains sometimes in the
process-table.
I think this effect comes from Solaris 2.5.1.
Rudolf
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Imran Zalfackruddin wrote:
-> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:14:30 -0400
-> From: Imran Zalfackruddin <imran@???>
-> To: exim-users@???
-> Subject: [EXIM] Defunct process on exim 2.04
->
-> 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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