mailscanner stops after a while, why?

[Julian Field]

At 10:54 30/04/2002, you wrote:
>After a while mailscanner stops scanning mails yet the service is still
>running.
>If I stop it manually I get this message:
>[root admin]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailscanner stop
>Shutting down MailScanner: ERROR!sendmail okERROR!
>[root admin]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailscanner start
>Starting MailScanner:
>
>What do the 2 errors mean?
>An immediate restart afterwards gives this result :
>[root admin]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailscanner restart
>Shutting down MailScanner: ERROR!sendmail oksendmail ok
>Starting MailScanner:
>[root admin]#
>
>So I wonder what the errors mean.
>I use sophos as my antivirus program. I am using a SUN Cobalt Qube 3 with OS
>6.4

I admit my init.d scripts aren't perfect.

You can run /usr/local/MailScanner/bin/check_mailscanner to see if it is
running (it will print the PID which you can then kill), or to start it.
You'll still have to make sure the 2 sendmail processes are running though.
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