MailScanner continously respawns without processing

[Paul Hansen]

Hi all--

I have a new installation of MailScanner 4.12-2, Exim 4.12, Kaspersky
and SpamAssassin. At this point I am just trying to troubleshoot
MailScanner itself (from queue to queue) since Exim does accept a new
message and drop it in the incoming queue.

I installed MailScanner using the tar distribution. I manually installed
all of the required Perl modules with the recommended versions and
patches.

My main problem is I've been unable to get any troubleshooting logs out
of MailScanner itself. I get almost nothing in syslog (syslogd -r -m 0)
and when run in with Debug I get the same log entries as otherwise:

Feb 14 11:01:12 granite MailScanner[20449]: MailScanner
Feb 14 11:01:12 granite MailScanner[20449]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.12-2 starting...
Feb 14 11:01:22 granite MailScanner[20507]: MailScanner
Feb 14 11:01:22 granite MailScanner[20507]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.12-2 starting...
Feb 14 11:18:40 granite MailScanner[27699]: MailScanner
Feb 14 11:18:40 granite MailScanner[27699]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.12-2 starting...
Feb 14 11:18:50 granite MailScanner[27748]: MailScanner
Feb 14 11:18:50 granite MailScanner[27748]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.12-2 starting...
Feb 14 11:19:00 granite MailScanner[27827]: MailScanner
Feb 14 11:19:00 granite MailScanner[27827]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.12-2 starting...

It appears MailScanner is repeatedly trying to initialize itself but
never succeeds. This continues until I kill the MailScanner process. I
never have more than one MailScanner process running (there's usually a
<defunct> one lurking too).

MailScanner does change to the exim UID/GID and I've made sure
/opt/MailScanner/var is writable by that UID--the only time I caught an
error message in syslog was when it wasn't.

I am using Red Hat Linux 7.2. 

Is it possible to turn on more verbose logging? I just have so little to
troubleshoot with.

Any suggestions? Thank you!

Paul