https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/sendmail-problem-solution/m-p/3140721#M572142 On HP 9000 Workstation under HP-UX 9.XX sendmail may spawn a sendmail process that consumes considerable CPU time. If sendmail is killed an restarted the problem still exists. Even after rebooting the same problem.<BR />On my workstation the solution to the problem was:<BR />Starting the sendmail process with:<BR />/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q 30m<BR />rather than:<BR />/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q30m<BR />as found in the manual (the difference is the blanc behind the "-q").<BR /> Wed, 10 Dec 2003 05:47:38 GMT Esser 2003-12-10T05:47:38Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/sendmail-problem-solution/m-p/3140721#M572142 On HP 9000 Workstation under HP-UX 9.XX sendmail may spawn a sendmail process that consumes considerable CPU time. If sendmail is killed an restarted the problem still exists. Even after rebooting the same problem.<BR />On my workstation the solution to the problem was:<BR />Starting the sendmail process with:<BR />/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q 30m<BR />rather than:<BR />/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q30m<BR />as found in the manual (the difference is the blanc behind the "-q").<BR /> Wed, 10 Dec 2003 05:47:38 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/sendmail-problem-solution/m-p/3140721#M572142 Esser 2003-12-10T05:47:38Z