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From: mahesh@cs.fau.edu (Mahesh Neelakanta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Sendmail 5.65+IDA
Message-ID: <1990Dec05.082250.21765@cs.fau.edu>
Date: 5 Dec 90 08:22:50 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
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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,....)?