From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 24 3:17:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gray.westgate.gr (gray.westgate.gr [212.205.119.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6255337B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 03:17:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from charon@localhost) by gray.westgate.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id e9OAHJf01565; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:17:19 +0300 (EEST) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:17:19 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Fabiana Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange sendmail behavior Message-ID: <20001024131719.A365@gray.westgate.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from morgana@telocity.com on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 02:31:41PM -0400 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message