[2306] in testers
Zmail notify gone bad on Solaris?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Sun Aug 1 14:55:22 1993
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1993 14:55:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
I notice that when logged on to suns, I begin accumulating defunct processes:
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME COMD
8 Z 11306 15780 15685 61 0 0:01
<defunct>
8 Z 11306 15758 15685 43 0 0:00
<defunct>
8 S 11306 15685 1 30 1 20 fc62e800 355 f00cef0c ? 0:01 zwgc
I notice that I don't always get mail notifications.
I also notice that all the defunct processes are children of zwgc.
My first rough guess is that something bad is happening with process
forked by zwgc, probably my notify processes.
I have this in my .zephyr.desc:
match MAIL
does $instance
match pop
exec /usr/athena/zmailnotify
exit
endmatch
enddoes
endmatch
and this in my .zwgc.desc:
match "MAIL"
case $instance
match "pop"
exec "/usr/athena/zmailnotify"
exit
endcase
print "(Authentication: @bold("+$aval+"))\n"
print substitute($default)
put
exit
These are the only zephyr things that have exec's in them.
-wdc
