govern@houxf.UUCP (06/17/83)
Fairly often, when I do a ps -gaxu to find out what my system is doing, I see a pair of processes in the IW state that appear to be spawned by Mail: send-mail -i someuser ...local%mail -d someuser I don't know what they're waiting for, but they tend to hang around for a while. I also tend to have at least one zombie owned by root, which is in the "<exiting>" state, and I can't kill it. Does anyone know why these are there, and how (or whether) to prevent them? Thanks, Bill Stewart houxf!govern houxf!hoscf!bin <-- Better