Re: help! thousands of qmail-queue processes!

[Alex Pennace]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:07:21PM -0600, Chris McDaniel wrote:
> The vast majority of the qmail-queue processes look to have a parent pid of
> '1'

Then something is not running qmail-queue properly. Find out what.

Shortly after it starts, qmail-queue starts a message file under
queue/mess. Even if no content has been passed to qmail-queue yet, it
will write out its Received header, which includes the calling
uid. Start your investigation there.