Console error messages...

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jan 23 22:07:51 GMT 2003


Take a good look at your maillog whenever it starts producing the error to
see if it contains any useful info.

At 20:45 23/01/2003, you wrote:
>I have poured over my Mailscanner.conf file and have not found anything.
>The file was changed yesterday, however, the error did not pop up until this
>morning.  Mailscanner was restarted and it ran fine for about 30 minutes and
>then got the same error.  I restarted it again and it has been running fine
>for the past 3 hours.
>
>Should I be checking somewhere else?
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> > Behalf Of Julian Field
> > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:21 AM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: Console error messages...
> >
> >
> > This is most commonly caused by syntax errors in your MailScanner.conf
> > file. Check your maillog for more information, it will hopefully tell you
> > why MailScanner cannot start properly.
> >
> > At 18:00 23/01/2003, you wrote:
> > >I just started getting the following errors this morning:  Has
> > anyone seen
> > >this before?
> > >
> > >We haven't got any child processes, which isn't right!, No child
> > processes
> > >at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 191.
> > >We have just tried to reap a process which wasn't one of ours!, No child
> > >processes at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 194.
> >
> > --
> > Julian Field
> > www.MailScanner.info
> > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> >

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Julian Field
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MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support



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