mailscanner status command

[Dan Leavitt]

Sorry Julian, I missed the solution that you posted this morning.  It looks
like it solves the problem.

Thanks again,
Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <jkf at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: mailscanner status command


> 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
> > >
>
> --
> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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