[Bug 520228] [NEW] Installing ssmtp seems to break cron package

[narnie]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: ssmtp

It seems that after installing ssmtp, cron process result in zombie
processes.

root     14693  0.0  0.0  91236  1660 ?        S    Feb05   0:00  \_ CRON
root     14694  0.0  0.0  91244  1160 ?        S    Feb05   0:00  |   \_ CRON
woodnt   14696  0.0  0.0  50152  2800 ?        S    Feb05   0:00  |       \_ /usr/sbin/sendmail -i -FCronDaemon -oem woodnt

over and over again

If I have MAILTO="" set, then I get this:

root      1446  0.0  0.0  18708   996 ?        Ss   18:48   0:00 cron
root      3631  0.0  0.0  91236  2188 ?        S    18:56   0:00  \_ CRON
root      3632  0.0  0.0  91240  1264 ?        S    18:56   0:00  |   \_ CRON
woodnt    3633  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Zs   18:56   0:00  |       \_ [sh] <defunct>

Repeated ad nauseum

Only thing than kills the process tree is to restart the cron daemon.

I have purged ssmtp and reinstalled bsd-mailx which installed postfix as
the MTA and that didn't fix anything. Not sure where the true fault is
(cron or ssmtp)

This seems to be a different but, but has some similarities to bug
report:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137785

Thanks,
Narnie

** Affects: ssmtp (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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