Re: Why so much zombies?

[Chuck Swiger <cswiger%mac.com@localhost>]

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