dying processes

[S Mohan]

I had the same problem. I restart MailScanner regularly. As Julian
pointed out, /var/spool/MailScanner did occupy a lot of space. I knocked
off quarantine. I notice that the incoming directory has a whole lot of
files. I think this is temporary unpacking and repacking area, if I'm
not wrong. Would it be prudent to cron a command like
"find /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming +mtime +3| xargs rm -f" on a daily
basis.

Maybe this can be part of standard install?

Julian:
Can clean up option of quarantine and temporary directory (in terms of
no of hours or days) be part of the configuration in future releases?
The cron job can be modified every time MailScanner starts.

Mohan

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Julian Field
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 8:46 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: dying processes


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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