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[Jim Levie]

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 10:20, Spicer, Kevin wrote:
>
> I didn't really post my configuration here it is...
> Mandrake 9.0 (kernel 2.4.19)
> sendmail 8.12.6
> mailscanner 3.23
>
> The other oddness is that I noticed a few minutes ago that there are
> occaisionally more than two sendmail processes running (not including
> children - i.e. processess with a PPID of 1) I suspect this might be
> part of the problem - but I don't know where they are coming from!
> Does anyone know if mailscanner invokes sendmail directly?
>
Okay, that's probably your problem. As I recall it's the master sendmail
process, the one that is listening for SMTP connections that locks the
access.db, so a second master process is going to create a problem.

How often are you restarting MailScanner? What might be happening, if
you are using a mailscanner init script that also starts sendmail, is
that a restart of mailscanner isn't successfully killing the existing
sendmail and starting up a new sendmail so that two are running. That's
one of the reasons that I always set up a MailScanner system with one
init script for sendmail and another for MailScanner. Another reason is
that a change in the sendmail config (that requires a restart) hardly
ever requires a MailScanner restart. And since MailScanner does need to
be periodically restarted, that doesn't mean that sendmail need to be
kicked at the same time.

It's probably not a big deal on a low volume server, but on busy ones
you really don't want to be restarting thing any more often than is
absolutely, positively, required.
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