----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 11:30
PM
Subject: 39,696 emails later...
Well, my flood of mails has stopped at 39,696.
My boss and people at the office were also getting the mails
at the office domain.
I took the office mail server offline when they were at
about 9,000 mails to prevent them from getting flooded.
After I stopped getting mails at my home address, I checked
the sending mail server and the zombie processes had stopped.
I put the office machine back online and the zombie
processes kicked in again, and the people at the office began receiving the
mails again. Should I tell them to just hang in there until the total reaches
39,696?
The zombie processes look like this:
qmailr 26008 0.0 0.5 888
568 ?? S 3:16PM 0:00.00
qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31053-rtag
qmailr 26088
0.0 0.5 888 568 ??
S 3:17PM 0:00.00 qmail-remote
officedom.com query-return-31068-rtag
qmailr 26097 0.0
0.5 888 568 ?? S
3:17PM 0:00.00 qmail-remote officedom.com
query-return-31066-m_ay
qmailr 26101 0.0 0.5
888 568 ?? S 3:17PM
0:00.01 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31069-m_ay
qmailr
26119 0.0 0.5 888 568 ??
S 3:17PM 0:00.01 qmail-remote
officedom.com query-return-31070-rtag
qmailr 26122 0.0
0.5 888 568 ?? S
3:17PM 0:00.00 qmail-remote officedom.com
query-return-31070-m_ay
qmailr 26124 0.0 0.5
888 568 ?? S 3:17PM
0:00.00 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31070-sant
qmailr
26127 0.0 0.5 888 568 ??
S 3:17PM 0:00.01 qmail-remote
officedom.com query-return-31070-naka
qmailr 26131 0.0
0.5 888 568 ?? S
3:17PM 0:00.00 qmail-remote officedom.com
query-return-31067-rtag
qmailr 26132 0.0 0.5
888 568 ?? S 3:17PM
0:00.01 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31067-m_ay
qmailr
26133 0.0 0.5 888 568 ??
S 3:17PM 0:00.00 qmail-remote
officedom.com query-return-31067-sant
qmailr 26134 0.0
0.5 888 568 ?? S
3:17PM 0:00.00 qmail-remote officedom.com
query-return-31067-naka
.... (this list shows about half of the
processes)
As I mentioned before, I have removed user 'query' in whose
name the mails are being sent, stopped qmail, cleared the cache, restarted
qmail and even rebooted the server itself, but these zombies just won't die.
Anyone have an oaken stake for qmail-remote?
Thanks,
Shawn