> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:44:34AM +0200, Taymour A. El Erian wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> My version is 20010501 and yes the problem always happens.
>> At this moment qmail-todo is zombie
>>
> If qmail-todo is in the zombie state it is no longer running. The
> qmail-send is then probably waiting for a other process (are other
> qmail-* processes running?).
'ps ax' shows like this after stopping qmail.
998 ? S 2:16 qmail-send
1000 ? S 0:21 /usr/local/bin/multilog t
s10000000 /var/log/qmail/sm
1005 ? S 0:47 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/
1006 ? S 0:39 qmail-rspawn
1007 ? S 0:18 qmail-clean
1008 ? Z 1:15 [qmail-todo <defunct>]
1009 ? Z 0:17 [qmail-clean <defunct>]
and logs show this:
status: qmail-todo exiting asap
Other processes like qmail-remote , qmail-queue still runs.
but wait, something new(for me)!!!
now it has started to recover automatically!!!
after some 100 seconds, it automatically recovers.
I remember for sure, that it wasn't the case sometimes ago.(might be when i
was using 20020501).
>
> What is very strange is, that it should not be possible to see
> qmail-todo in the zombie state. qmail-send does not wait(2) and the
> also sets the SIGCHLD handler to default (discard signal).
>
> --
> :wq Claudio
Regards,
Qutub.
