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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users sendmail -q hangs Post 85229 by chaandana on Monday 3rd of October 2005 11:08:14 PM
Old 10-04-2005
sendmail -q hangs
Hi,

I have a system where sendmail deamon not running.
(And I have lot of jobs under crontab).
But I have whole lot of sendmail processes started-up by cron process, eating up its CPU resources. (for a sample - see below)
$ ps -ef|grep 248
root 248 1 0 Aug 12 ? 0:56 /usr/sbin/cron
root 11861 248 0 Sep 26 ? 0:00 sh -c if [ -x /usr/lib/sendmail ]; then /usr/lib/sendmail -q; fi
root 7328 248 0 Oct 02 ? 0:00 sh -c if [ -x /usr/lib/sendmail ]; then /usr/lib/sendmail -q; fi
root 14735 248 0 Sep 26 ? 0:00 sh -c if [ -x /usr/lib/sendmail ]; then /usr/lib/sendmail -q; fi
root 25825 248 0 Oct 03 ? 0:00 sh -c if [ -x /usr/lib/sendmail ]; then /usr/lib/sendmail -q; fi
root 16386 248 0 Sep 30 ? 0:00 sh -c if [ -x /usr/lib/sendmail ]; then /usr/lib/sendmail -q; fi

When I tried to startup the deamon as used in the cron executable like:
"/usr/lib/sendmail -q" I get errors: (see below)
# /usr/lib/sendmail -q
hash map "Alias0": missing map file /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory
dbm map "Alias0": missing map file /etc/aliases
Operating system error
Operating system error

But If I run the command like this: "/usr/lib/sendmail -q15m", then it works fine.

1. How to get rid of following type of processes:
"root 14735 248 0 Sep 26 ? 0:00 sh -c if [ -x /usr/lib/sendmail ]; then /usr/lib/sendmail -q; fi"

My system details:
$ uname -i
SUNW,Ultra-60
$ uname -a
SunOS stib2 5.8 Generic_117350-26 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60s:

Thanks in advance.
 

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LEARN ABOUT OSF1

wnn

wwsetup(8)						      System Manager's Manual							wwsetup(8)

NAME

       wwsetup, wnn - Sets up the 8-bit option for sendmail and the Wnn character-cell input method for Japanese

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/wwsetup

DESCRIPTION

       The  wwsetup  script performs one or both of the following tasks: Enables or disables 8-bit transmission code, which is an option supported
       by sendmail software

	      By default, sendmail uses the 7-bit SMTP mail transmission protocol that is the standard for sending mail  over  a  TCP/IP  network.
	      Note  that  enabling the 8-bit option is not generally recommended because it violates the SMTP mail transmission protocol.  Config-
	      ures the Wnn software that supports a character-cell input method that is widely used in Japan

	      If the Tru64 UNIX IOSJPWNNnnn subset is installed, the wwsetup script asks if you want to create the following links if they do  not
	      already exist on the system:

	      /usr/local/bin/Wnn4 --> /usr/i18n/bin/Wnn4 /usr/local/bin/wnn --> /usr/i18n/lib/wnn

	      The script also prompts you to enter the password for Wnn dictionaries if they do not already exist on the system.

	      Both the links and the dictionary password must be in place before Wnn software can be used.

SEE ALSO

       Commands: sendmail(8), jserver(1wnn)

       Note  that the jserver(1wnn) reference page is available only in Japanese and is included in the subset that contains Japanese translations
       of reference pages.

       Others: i18n_intro(5), Japanese(5), l10n_intro(5)

																	wwsetup(8)
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