3-24-1 Stops Scanning

[Julian Field]

At 23:07 21/10/2002, you wrote:
>This is the second time this has happened now.  I notice that the
>X-Mailscanner... is missing from the headers of messages and I am not
>getting any virus alerts.  So, I shutdown mailscanner with kill and restart
>it and it works again.  Any idea's?  I think I went all weekend without a
>virus scanner running. ;<(

Are you running on a Cobalt system? Beware of cron jobs that "check your
system is working" and restart processes regularly. The only way you could
get the symptoms you are seeing is when something does a "sendmail restart"
or similar without telling you it did it. You need to stop it doing that.
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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