mailscanner status command

[Dan Leavitt]

This [sendmail] reference is apparently a symptom of the problem that I
reported yesterday when the 'status' command twice indicated FAILED.   Below
are both the 'status' output and a 'ps ax' output.

[root-dll at server1 ~]$ service mailscanner status
Checking MailScanner daemons:
         MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
         incoming sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
         outgoing sendmail:                                [FAILED]
[root-dll at server1 ~]$ ps ax |grep -i mail
 6472 ?        S      0:00 sendmail: accepting connections
 6475 ?        S      0:00 [sendmail]
15233 ?        S      0:05 perl /usr/local/MailScanner/bin/mailscanner
/usr/loca
16960 ?        S      0:00 sendmail: ./g5HEGoW29244 softwaremodeling.com.:
user

Then, a stop, start, status and ps again.  Note that it stopped the
processes ok so it's not dependant on the 'ps ax' output for that.

[root-dll at server1 ~]$ service mailscanner stop
Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
              MailScanner:                                 [  OK  ]
              incoming sendmail:                           [  OK  ]
              outgoing sendmail:                           [  OK  ]
[root-dll at server1 ~]$ service mailscanner start
Starting MailScanner daemons:
         incoming sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
         outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
         MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
[root-dll at server1 ~]$ service mailscanner status
Checking MailScanner daemons:
         MailScanner:                                      [  OK  ]
         incoming sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
         outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
[root-dll at server1 ~]$ !ps
ps ax | grep -i mail
17325 ?        S      0:00 sendmail: accepting connections
17328 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -q15m
17331 ?        S      0:00 sendmail: ./g5HEGoW29244 alpha.armillaire.com.:
user
17337 ?        S      0:00 perl /usr/local/MailScanner/bin/mailscanner
/usr/loca
[root-dll at server1 ~]$

Dan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Horsfall" <dave at ESI.COM.AU>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: mailscanner status command


> On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Nick Phillips wrote:
>
> > >   679 ?        S      0:00 [sendmail]
> >
> > In a situation where you've asked ps to show arguments etc., it goes
like
> > that to indicate that it can't, for whatever reason. That's what POSIX
> > says it's supposed to do, anyway...
>
> Mostly because it's been swapped out.
>
> > Today is National Existential Ennui Awareness Day.
>
> Who cares :-)
>
> --
> Dave Horsfall  DTM  VK2KFU  dave at esi.com.au  Ph: +61 2 9906-3377 Fx:
9906-3468
> (Unix Guru) Pacific ESI, Unit 22, 8 Campbell St, Artarmon, NSW 2065,
Australia
>