MS and Restart every 4hrs

[Julian Field]

At 14:09 24/10/2002, you wrote:
>I wasn't sure of this but I think I might be seeing something wrong with
>the check_mailscanner script.  On my test box, if I started with the new
>script, after a couple hours all my memory is eaten.  On my production
>system which I started around the same time last night I started with
>check_mailscanner.solaris and it doesn't have the problem.  The new
>script the primary process is perl whereas the old one is mailscanner
>and I know it shouldn't make a difference in how the program runs but I
>was wondering if it prevents it from restarting.

No, the code goes round its loop until its time is up, then it exits and
gets re-run by the parent process. It doesn't need to do the "re-exec"
method that I used in version 3, because there was no parent process then.

>   Also in v3 you could
>see when it restarted every 4hrs but how can you tell now?

You should still see the
         MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.01-8 starting...
in the maillog.
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