mahesh@cs.fau.edu (Mahesh Neelakanta) (12/05/90)
It's 3 am and I'm not getting anywhere...I seem to be having a small problem with sendmail. I have compiled sendmail+ida 5.65 for hp-ux 7.0 and everything is working real nicely. The IDA extensions are real helpful. My problem is that after a smtp connection to my sendmail, the process that was fork'd from the daemon to handle this connection does not exit..it becomes a <defunct>. Read the man pages on how this should work and found out that the parent process should wait(). Well, the parent process does do that and I verified with some "syslog()"'s. So, why does the child still hang around as <defunct>? Has this happened to anyone else? Reply by post's or email depending on how crazy this message is. Thanks. Mahesh Neelakanta (mahes@cs.fau.edu) Tired student living off 10 cans of soda per day. ps. Anyone having problems with syslog(LOG_DEBUG,....)?