plenty of procmail/trashscan processes

ok, the problem concerning the wrong zlib-package was solved.
what stays are those many many many pairs of procmail- & trashscan-processes
last time I had a look at them (20 mins after restarting the machine) there were more than 2500 processes only from user admispconfig.

it looked like this:

Code:

# ps -u admispconfig
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
14994 ?        00:00:00 ispconfig_httpd
15289 ?        00:00:00 freshclam
15295 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15296 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15297 ?        00:00:00 trashscan
15305 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15306 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15307 ?        00:00:00 trashscan
15315 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15316 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15317 ?        00:00:00 trashscan
15325 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15326 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15327 ?        00:00:00 trashscan
15335 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15336 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15337 ?        00:00:00 trashscan
15345 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15346 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15347 ?        00:00:00 trashscan
15355 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15356 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15357 ?        00:00:00 trashscan
15365 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15366 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15367 ?        00:00:00 trashscan
15375 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15376 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15377 ?        00:00:00 trashscan
15385 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15386 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15387 ?        00:00:00 trashscan
15397 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15398 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15399 ?        00:00:00 trashscan
15407 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15408 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15409 ?        00:00:00 trashscan
15417 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15418 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15419 ?        00:00:00 trashscan
15427 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15428 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15429 ?        00:00:00 trashscan
15437 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15438 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15439 ?        00:00:00 trashscan
15447 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15448 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15449 ?        00:00:00 trashscan
15457 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15458 ?        00:00:00 procmail
15459 ?        00:00:00 trashscan
15467 ?        00:00:00 procmail

this is only a little part of the whole output I got

 

Do you have something like a mail loop? What's in your mail log?

 

these are the last few lines from /var/log/mail

this is what /var/log/mail.err tells me: (the dying processes may be killed by me, but I'm not sure)

but actually this tells me nothing. email-daemons are not my world

 

Ok, you're using Sendmail. Which distribution are you using?

What's in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf?

Also, please post the output of

Code:

netstat -tap

 

Distro: SuSe 9.2

/etc/sendmail.cf is located under : http://nopaste.php-q.net/179737
yeah I know there are many comments in it - but deleting them all would last to long

 

Sendmail isn't running at all! Start it:

Code:

/etc/init.d/sendmail start

The sendmail.cf looks ok, so hopefully your problem will disappear afterwards.

 

oops, no the problem why there was no listening sendmail was: I stopped it, as the server begun to hang itself up.

 

two minutes after starting sendmail a "ps -Al | less" looks like this:

it is always the same

 

What's in your mail log when you have that many processes and sendmail is running? I guess in your last mail log excerpt sendmail wasn't running.

 

humm, dunno

but this is a /var/log/mail - excerpt with sendmail running at present

the last few lines from: ps -Al

 

wanna have a look at the server itself? i think it would be much easier to handle this problem.

so if you want a login send me a pm