NFS mount failure strangles mailscanner

[Nick Phillips]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 09:09:46AM -0400, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

> down mailscanner, rotates the syslogs, restarts mailscanner.  At that time,
> the startup blurb said there were 2728 messages waiting to be scanned.
> Mailscanner ran for about two minutes, then nothing.  The process was still
> there all night (I saw it via "ps"), just not doing anything.  After I got NFS
> service going on my workstation, and restarted mailscanner (4377 msgs waiting),
> things are fine again.

Did ps show mailscanner or any subprocess to be in disk wait?

--
Nick Phillips -- nwp at lemon-computing.com
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.