Hello Experts
I have M4000 Solaris 10 server, from few many days there are too many
sendmail and
mail.local process starting on server and each time i need to kill mannualy using pkill send mail, some time there will 600 of them taking 30mb memory for each and hence slowing down the server, here is sample of process
HTML Code:
root 7062 7061 0 07:01:58 ? 0:00 mail.local -l
root 7060 7059 0 07:01:58 ? 0:00 mail.local -l
root 6739 6540 0 07:00:52 ? 0:01 /usr/lib/sendmail -bl -q15m
smmsp 5532 5531 0 06:30:50 ? 0:02 /usr/lib/sendmail -Ac -q15m
root 6966 6739 0 07:01:27 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -bl -q15m
root 6540 1 0 06:54:20 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -bl -q15m
root 7052 7051 0 07:01:55 ? 0:00 mail.local -l
root 7065 6739 0 07:01:59 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -bl -q15m
infodba 1794 1725 0 22:17:08 pts/1 0:00 -ksh
root 7059 6739 0 07:01:58 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -bl -q15m
root 7035 6739 0 07:01:51 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -bl -q15m
root 5137 4284 0 06:20:05 pts/4 0:00 bash
root 7067 6739 0 07:02:00 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -bl -q15m
root 6541 6540 0 06:54:20 ? 0:02 /usr/lib/sendmail -bl -q15m
root 6937 6936 0 07:01:21 ? 0:00 mail.local -l
root 7037 6739 0 07:01:52 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -bl -q15m
when i do "
pkill sendmail" it will kill send mail but still there will be be couple of hundread "
mail.local" like below
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root 21898 1 0 01:49:20 ? 0:02 mail.local -l
root 1262 1 0 04:55:23 ? 0:01 mail.local -l
root 23541 1 0 02:19:35 ? 0:01 mail.local -l
root 29603 1 0 04:19:36 ? 0:01 mail.local -l
root 24275 1 0 02:35:43 ? 0:01 mail.local -l
root 1502 1 0 04:59:04 ? 0:00 mail.local -l
root 22605 1 0 02:03:34 ? 0:02 mail.local -l
root 29120 1 0 04:11:44 ? 0:01 mail.local -l
i did check mail and it was showing a cronjob alert, i even disabled the cron. but still these mail process keeps growing with time
Appreciate all the and questions if any
Raghu
after doing all these here is again new process started
smmsp 7176 1 0 07:02:21 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -Ac -q15m
After kill all process, and i login as user infodba i get alert i have a mail
$mail
will give this output
----- Transcript of session follows -----
infodba... Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
Message could not be delivered for 5 days
Message will be deleted from queue
--p5Q1FoZe006151.1309051647/ie10ux014.honeywell.com
Content-Type: message/delivery-status
Reporting-MTA: dns; ie10ux014.honeywell.com
Arrival-Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:36:05 +0530 (IST)
Final-Recipient: RFC822;
infodba@ie10ux014.honeywell.com
Action: failed
Status: 4.4.7
Remote-MTA: DNS; [127.0.0.1]
Last-Attempt-Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 06:57:27 +0530 (IST)
--p5Q1FoZe006151.1309051647/ie10ux014.honeywell.com
Content-Type: message/rfc822
Return-Path: <infodba>
Received: (from infodba@localhost)
by ie10ux014.honeywell.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4/Submit) id p5JD65ID000485
for infodba; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:36:05 +0530 (IST)
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:36:05 +0530 (IST)
From: infodba
Message-Id: <
201106191306.p5JD65ID000485@ie10ux014.honeywell.com>
To: infodba
Subject: Output from "cron" command
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Your "cron" job on ie10ux014
/tcpdv1_ie10/tcadmin/bin/listusers 2>&1
produced the following output:
You MUST BE LOGGED in as infodba to run this shell script, exiting...
--p5Q1FoZe006151.1309051647/ie10ux014.honeywell.com--
but i have already disabled this, but still why i am recieving mail/alert?