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Jon Bagshaw j.bagshaw at BRADFORD.AC.UK
Mon Dec 9 17:17:32 GMT 2002


Matthew Bowman wrote:
 > However when I came to restart MailScanner I have now multiple
 > mailscanners running (with service MailScanner restart)
<snip ps output>

>
> Not sure why...
>

Version 4 works differently to 3. Instead of being a single process,
there is a parent process, which forks off 5 (default) children. You
can change this number in mailscanner.conf. So with a default
install you should see 6 processes in a ps listing.

Regards
        Jon

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Jon Bagshaw, Computer Officer
Computer Centre, University of Bradford



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