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[Henry C. Chorlian]

Julian,

That was it!  Thanks for your help!!

Henry


On Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 04:48:13 PM, MailScanner mailing list wrote:

> 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.
> > > --
> > > 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
> > >
> >
> >------------------------------------------
> >Henry C. Chorlian
> >Director of Information Systems
> >Center for Blood Research
> >800 Huntington Avenue
> >Boston, MA  02115-6303
> >
> >Harvard Medical School Affiliate
> >chorlian at cbr.med.harvard.edu
> >Voice:  (617) 278-3425
> >Fax:  (617) 278-3493
>
> --
> 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
>

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Henry C. Chorlian
Director of Information Systems
Center for Blood Research
800 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA  02115-6303

Harvard Medical School Affiliate
chorlian at cbr.med.harvard.edu
Voice:  (617) 278-3425
Fax:  (617) 278-3493