Re: Why so much zombies?

[volker%volker-wolfram.de@localhost (Volker Wolfram)]

Chuck Swiger <cswiger%mac.com@localhost> wrote:

> On Mar 16, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Volker Wolfram wrote:
> > why I have so much zombies and postdrop and sendmail processes. My crontab 
> > for
> > user root is empty and others have no mail function in their cron job.
>
> That doesn't matter-- if the cronjob creates output, then it will be mailed 
> out to the user.  
>
> Typically you see this sort of thing when an error is happening repeatedly.  
> Redirecting to /dev/null will avoid spawning mail delivery, but won't fix the 
> cause of the error (assuming there is something going on).
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> -Chuck
>
>
Hallo,

thank you for this advice. I'll examine my system.

Thank you,

Volker