RE: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 items

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Taral wrote:

> >     root 18942 22213  0 13:22:03 ?        0:00 /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
> >     root 18946 22213  0 13:22:03 ?        0:00 /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
> >     root 18948     1  0 13:22:04 ?        0:00 /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
> >     root 22213     1  0   Oct 26 ?        1:40 /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
> 
> Er... if you have this, you have a problem. This means there are TWO
> sendmail daemons running... There should only be ONE with a ppid of 1. It
> looks like 18948 is blah.

Good guess, but that is normal behaviour, at least under Solaris :)  It
took me several 'ps -aef's to actually find it duplicated, it isn't always
there.

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
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