[comp.mail.sendmail] What is send-mail?

hewitt@unc.cs.unc.edu (W. Joe Hewitt) (10/13/88)

When my sendmail gets sick I find processes that are called
send-mail.  Their parent process is init and they just hang
waiting on an event.  Does anyone know what they are for and
where they come from?  Is there any documentation available?

Thanks.

karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (10/14/88)

hewitt@unc.cs.unc.edu (W. Joe Hewitt) writes:
   When my sendmail gets sick I find processes that are called
   send-mail.  Their parent process is init and they just hang
   waiting on an event.  Does anyone know what they are for and
   where they come from?  Is there any documentation available?

Berzerkeley Mail invokes the back-end delivery program
(/usr/lib/delivermail in days gone by, these days typically
/usr/lib/sendmail) with an argv[0] of "send-mail."  If you have BSD
source, look in send.c, routine unpack(), around like 600.

As to why it's getting hung on your system, I don't have a clue.

--Karl