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[Julian Field]

At 16:39 28/02/2002, you wrote:
>The check_mailscanner routine has some syntax errors for the
>solaris 7 version of ps.  I think this is the route cause.  I've
>taken this out of the crontab and run it manually and checked to
>see that only one instance is running.  So far so good.  Now to
>correct check_mailscanner for my version of ps.

The check_mailscanner script quite often needs tweaking for the particular
ps options available in everyone's OS. I supply one that works with RedHat
Linux and one that should work nicely with Solaris 8, but apart from that
take a look at the script, it's pretty simple.

>On Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 04:25:27 PM, MailScanner mailing list wrote:
>
> > At 16:16 28/02/2002, you wrote:
> > >Does MailScanner normally run with more than one instance?
> > >It seems I've got 2 perls running after a while with MailScanner.
> > >I think as suggested the other day that this is the problem.
> > >Is there a remedy for that?
> >
> > Is one a child of the other? If the PPID of one matches the PID of the
> > other, then you're okay, you are just seeing MailScanner fork off a job.
> >
> > If you really have 2 running, then you will see nasty errors in your syslog
> > about not being able to move or link files.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ