I have a pain in the processes

I have a pain in the processes .....This little creep is doing something to
cause my server to slow down. He's doing it to my sendmail
server.......After a while I have several processes running in sendmail like
the following:

  4571 ?  S     0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h
  4678 ?  S     0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h
  5712 ?  S     0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h
  5981 ?  S     0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h
  5999 ?  S     0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h
  6023 ?  S     0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h
  6145 ?  S     0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h

If I check with ps ax periodically and see this in my processes I simply
kill 4571 etc. and things speed up again. What I need to do is run an sh
script with cron to automatically Grep /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h and if
the pid is above 1000, kill it. The problem is that I really don't know how
to write it. It shouldn'nt take more than a couple of lines of code but I'm
not real good with the syntax yet..........although I am aware of what needs
to be done :o)

can any of the GURU's help with a couple of lines of code. I already sent a
band of thugs with pick axes to his place in Illinois to make green monkey
squirt of his computers but in the mean time I need to solve this little
problem :o)

any help would be appreciated

C


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