several sendmail processes lingering

[Marc Powell]

Ah, interesting, a fellow Tennessean ;)

Nagios doesn't actually use sendmail at all. It's going to be whatever program you have configured in your notify-by-email command (probably /bin/mail) which probably calls sendmail for final delivery. Can you show us your notify-by-email command so that we can verify that there's nothing unusual about it? Beyond that, there must be something else, outside of nagios, that's causing a problem. Is there anything in the sendmail log file? Perhaps it's having problems doing DNS resolution or difficulties connecting to the remote SMTP server. If there's nothing in the maillog you could always look at the queue files (/var/spool/mqueue/qf*). They might have information on failures. Also, most newer versions of sendmail show useful information in ps like --

root      1477 22927  0 10:38 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: server chatbox-smtp-out6.apple.com [17.254.6.17] cmd read                 

Do the ones that are hanging out show anything like that? If you're running sendmail as a daemon on that machine it's not unusual to have multiple sendmail children hanging out.

--
Marc

________________________________________
From: Blackshear, Lisa [mailto:lblackshear at shopathometv.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:02 AM
To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: [Nagios-users] several sendmail processes lingering

Hello, 
Could someone tell me how to get nagios to closes the sendmail processes it spans?  I have several sendmail processes that accumulate until I kill them.  Why is this?
Lisa Blackshear 
Unix Administrator, Shop at Home Network, LLC 
(615) 263-8333 | lblackshear at sath.com 
www.shopathometv.com 




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