MailScanner stops logging

[Sean Embry]

I have a somewhat simular problem, but it's because I rotate logs daily
instead of weekly. Sending a kill -1 to syslog fixes it.
I have that in my rotete script, but it doesn't work. :L


Sean Embry
Systems/Database Administrator
Northside Independent School District
San Antonio TX 78238
(210) 706-8790


>>> Denis.Beauchemin at USHERBROOKE.CA 09/06/02 10:07AM >>>
Hello,

I am an happy MailScanner user... but I have a problem with
MailScanner
(3.22-8) that stops logging to syslog.  Restarting MailScanner
(service
mailscanner restart) makes it log again.

I believe this occurs after an automatic restart (after 4 hours) as my
log shows:
Sep  5 15:12:07 smtp3 mailscanner[9375]: Scanning 1 messages, 5005
bytes
Sep  5 15:12:07 smtp3 mailscanner[9375]: Scanned 1 messages, 5005 bytes
in 0 seconds
Sep  5 15:15:08 smtp3 mailscanner[9375]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 3.22 starting.
Sep  5 15:15:08 smtp3 mailscanner[9375]: Configuring mailscanner for
sendmail...
Sep  5 15:15:08 smtp3 mailscanner[9375]: Using locktype = flock
Sep  5 19:15:09 smtp3 mailscanner[26370]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 3.22 starting.
Sep  5 19:15:09 smtp3 mailscanner[26370]: Configuring mailscanner for
sendmail...

This is not (yet) a heavily used server (around 10 messages/hour) but
there were no log entries until I restarted MailScanner this morning. 
I
know it was working because it blocked a Yaha infected email and
tagged
some SPAM.  But nothing in the logs...

I am on Red Hat 7.3 with Perl v5.6.1.

Any ideas of what might be happening?

Thanks!

Denis
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