mailscanner status command

[Julian Field]

So are you saying my latest script works, or doesn't work?

At 13:11 21/06/2002, you wrote:
>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
> >

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