MailScanner stops logging

[Julian Field]

Has anyone got any ideas on this? I can't reproduce it on my systems and so 
it's got be beat at the moment
:-(

Your suggestion of a "service mailscanner restart" should work, but is 
slight overkill. If you use the pid file 
(/usr/local/MailScanner/var/virus.pid by default if I remember rightly, but 
it's in the mailscanner.conf file) and kill that process number, then call 
"check_mailscanner" to restart it, that will do all that's necessary. You 
can occasionally hit problems starting sendmail if you do it immediately 
after killing it (hence the "sleep" in the init.d script).

#!/bin/sh
pid=`cat /usr/local/MailScanner/var/virus.pid`
kill $pid
sleep 5
/usr/local/MailScanner/check_mailscanner >/dev/null 2>&1

should do the job nicely, but check I got the paths right!

At 20:56 06/09/2002, you wrote:
>I just checked and my MailScanner stopped logging again, after it
>recycled itself.
>
>Executing "service mailscanner restart" restarts logging.
>
>Should I stop the automatic MailScanner recycling or recycle it in the
>cron using the "service mailscanner restart" command?
>
>Denis
>On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 11:07, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> > 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
> > --
> > Denis Beauchemin, analyste
> > Université de Sherbrooke, S.T.I.
> > T: 819.821.8000x2252 F: 819.821.8045
> >
>--
>Denis Beauchemin, analyste
>Université de Sherbrooke, S.T.I.
>T: 819.821.8000x2252 F: 819.821.8045

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