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Date:      Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:31:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Fabiana <morgana@telocity.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Strange sendmail behavior
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010231425480.776-100000@Angel.telocity.com>

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I don't even know how to describe what Sendmail is doing, but there is the
output I get when I run ps aux, there are a number of sendmail
processes running that I can't explain. At first I thought the problem
might be a  combination of Fetchmail and Sendmail not working happily
together. Now I am not sure. I tried to disable sendmail, but then,
Fetchmail refused to retrieve my email. I am not sure what I can do about it, 
so I would apreciate any input:

root    520  0.0  1.4  1704  848  ??  I     1:34PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
root    525  0.0  1.4  1704  848  ??  I     1:34PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
root    531  0.0  1.4  1704  848  ??  I     1:34PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
root    536  0.0  1.4  1704  848  ??  I     1:34PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
root    541  0.0  1.4  1704  848  ??  I     1:34PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
angel   569  0.0  2.0  2104 1232  ??  S     1:42PM   0:07.30 rxvt -bg black -fg
angel   570  0.0  1.3  1340  824  p2  Is    1:42PM   0:00.13 tcsh
root    582  0.0  1.8  1704 1120  ??  I     1:49PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
root    587  0.0  1.8  1704 1120  ??  I     1:49PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
angel   589  0.0  2.1  1864 1312  p2  I+    1:49PM   0:00.17 ssh kashmir -l fab
root    593  0.0  1.8  1704 1120  ??  I     1:49PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
angel   610  0.0  4.8  4528 2996  p0  I+    1:58PM   0:01.57 pine
angel   617  0.0  2.1  2236 1300  ??  I     2:03PM   0:00.12 aterm -geometry 68
angel   618  0.0  1.4  1368  832  p1  Is+   2:03PM   0:00.08 tcsh
root    628  0.0  1.8  1704 1120  ??  I     2:04PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
root    634  0.0  1.8  1704 1120  ??  I     2:04PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
root    640  0.0  1.8  1704 1120  ??  I     2:04PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
angel   711  0.0  2.1  2120 1288  ??  S     2:13PM   0:01.34 rxvt -bg black -fg
angel   712  0.0  1.4  1344  832  p4  Is    2:13PM   0:00.09 tcsh
root    714  0.0  1.4  1352  840  p4  S     2:14PM   0:00.13 _su (csh)
angel   723  0.0  2.0  2080 1248  ??  I     2:17PM   0:00.86 rxvt -bg black -fg
angel   724  0.0  1.3  1340  828  p3  Is+   2:17PM   0:00.08 tcsh
root    728  0.0  1.8  1704 1120  ??  I     2:19PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
root    733  0.0  1.8  1704 1120  ??  I     2:19PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
root    739  0.0  1.8  1704 1120  ??  I     2:19PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
root    744  0.0  1.8  1704 1120  ??  I     2:19PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
root    749  0.0  1.8  1704 1120  ??  I     2:19PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
root    754  0.0  1.8  1704 1120  ??  I     2:19PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
root    759  0.0  1.8  1704 1120  ??  I     2:19PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
root    764  0.0  1.8  1704 1120  ??  I     2:19PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
root      0  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  DLs   8:46AM   0:00.01  (swapper)

My sincere thanks for any thoughts.

F.



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