dying processes

Craig Bates c.bates at COMNET.CO.NZ
Mon Jan 20 19:24:14 GMT 2003


Hi Julian,

I have 23GB free on that partition.  So far we know that this problem has 
occured on RedHat 8.0 and FreeBSD 4.7, perl 5.005 and perl 5.8.0, with and 
without Razor, with and without SpamAssasin enabled in MailScanner.conf, with 
F-prot and ClamAV.

Does anybody else have any other information?

Craig


On Saturday 18 January 2003 04:16, you 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




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