dying processes

[Julian Field]

It may sound silly, but have you done a "df -k" recently? I've been
experiencing a similar problem myself with another user's server, and it
took me a while to realise one of the filesystems had filled up.

At 14:22 17/01/2003, you wrote:
>   I am not running Razor. I have MailScanner 4.10, SpamAssassin 2.43 and
> ClamAv 0.54 on Red Hat 8.0.
>
>   I would notice on my mailscanner-mrtg graphs that the number of
> MailScanner processes would drop from 20 to 3 sometimes, and stay there
> until I restarted MailScanner. I didn't look through the logs "real"
> hard, but my cursory examination didn't turn up anything.
>
>On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:45:18 +1300
>Craig Bates <c.bates at COMNET.CO.NZ> wrote:
>
> > Dale,
> >
> > Are you runing Spam assassin & RAZOR?  What OS and anti-virus are you
> running?
> >
> > Anybody else having these problems????
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > On Friday 17 January 2003 11:34, you wrote:
> > >   I was having this same problem, but didn't investigate why very much,
> > > that is why I put the restart option in mailscanner-mrtg, whenever it
> > > detects mailscanner is below a certain number of processes it
> restarts it.
> > >
> > >   Dale
> > >
> > > On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:36:22 +1300
> > >
> > > Craig Bates <c.bates at COMNET.CO.NZ> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I decided to install MailScanner on RedHat80 as I was having problems
> > > > with MailScanner processes dying on FreeBSD.  I am now having
> exactly the
> > > > same problem with RedHat80  This proves that the problem is independent
> > > > of OS, sendmail version / compilation and perl version.
> > > >
> > > > I find it very strage that nobody else seems to have this problem and I
> > > > have it on 3 boxes!
> > > >
> > > > Is there anybody on this list that has MailScanner working with
> > > > spamassassin-2.43-3.i386.rpm, razor-agents-2.22.tar.gz, fp-linux-sb.rpm
> > > > (f-prot)?   One of these must be causing the problem as I'm sure
> > > > MailScanner and RedHat8.0 is a very common installation that works!
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Craig
>
>
>--
>   Dale Lovelace
>   System Administrator
>   hotels.com
>   (214) 361-7311 Ext. 1074

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