dying processes

[Dale Lovelace]

[root at relay-01 root]# df -k
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3              1004052    477680    475368  51% /
/dev/sda1               101089      9457     86413  10% /boot
none                    256964         0    256964   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2              1004052    303652    649396  32% /usr
/dev/sda6             32360788   1414992  29301948   5% /var


  Nearly 30gig in /var, think I'm ok :-)

  Dale

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:16:01 +0000
Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
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  Dale Lovelace
  System Administrator
  hotels.com
  (214) 361-7311 Ext. 1074