Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:17:19 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Fabiana <morgana@telocity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange sendmail behavior Message-ID: <20001024131719.A365@gray.westgate.gr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010231425480.776-100000@Angel.telocity.com>; from morgana@telocity.com on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 02:31:41PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010231425480.776-100000@Angel.telocity.com>
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 02:31:41PM -0400, Fabiana wrote:
>
> I don't even know how to describe what Sendmail is doing, but there
> is the output I get when I run ps aux, there are a number of sendmail
> processes running that I can't explain. At first I thought the problem
> might be a combination of Fetchmail and Sendmail not working happily
> together. Now I am not sure. I tried to disable sendmail, but then,
> Fetchmail refused to retrieve my email. I am not sure what I can do
> about it, so I would apreciate any input:
From the output included in your mail I cannot see the rest of the
command line. It's probably `sendmail: server load too high' or
something like that.
> root 520 0.0 1.4 1704 848 ?? I 1:34PM 0:00.03 sendmail: server l
> root 525 0.0 1.4 1704 848 ?? I 1:34PM 0:00.03 sendmail: server l
> root 531 0.0 1.4 1704 848 ?? I 1:34PM 0:00.03 sendmail: server l
> root 536 0.0 1.4 1704 848 ?? I 1:34PM 0:00.03 sendmail: server l
[...]
Try sending the output of
% ps xaw
You probably have a lot of outgoing mail accumulating in your outgoing
queue, because of an error in your setup. With a large queue, you will
see many sendmail processes.
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