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From: govern@houxf.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Why does 4.1BSD leave mail processes around?
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Date: Thu, 16-Jun-83 19:09:02 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 16 19:09:02 1983
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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
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