MS and Restart every 4hrs

[Julian Field]

At 14:02 25/10/2002, you wrote:
>So nothing is gained from the new script?  Is it because it's using a
>non-gnu ps? Or because the process parameter is perl instead of
>mailscan? If not then I'll just soft link it  like it was in 3.x.

The next build will just copy the old check_mailscanner.solaris over the
top of check_mailscanner.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 6:34 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: MS and Restart every 4hrs
>
>
>At 22:50 24/10/2002, you wrote:
> >I double checked and I amd seeing something here.  If I start MS via
> >check_mailscanner.solaris, I see 5 mailscanner processes running and
> >all is well, but if I start it using check_mailscanner, I see 5 perl
> >processes running but after awhile I end up with as many perl processes
>
> >as memory apparently allows.
>
>That will be the "is it already running" test in check_mailscanner not
>quite working for your OS. Take a look at the script. You might want to
>copy over the relevant Solaris chunk from check_mailscanner.solaris into
>it (or just use the check_mailscanner.solaris script instead).
>
>It's a thing that is almost impossible to do in a totally portable way.
>
> >On my test box, I started MS using the .solaris one last night and this
>
> >afternoon still had only 5 processes.  I kill them and restarted using
> >check_mailscanner and after 5 hours I have 21 perl processess each
> >taking the normal 22-24megs.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> >Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 4:36 PM
> >To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >Subject: Re: MS and Restart every 4hrs
> >
> >
> >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.
> >--
> >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
>
>--
>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

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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