Console error messages...

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jan 24 08:29:19 GMT 2003


At 23:59 23/01/2003, you wrote:
>I have scanned all through my logs and can't find any reference to the error
>messages.  Is there any particular string I should search for, ie. error
>code or something from mailscanner?

Look for "syntax" or "Syntax" for starters.


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> > Behalf Of Julian Field
> > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 2:08 PM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: Console error messages...
> >
> >
> > 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
> > > >
> >
> > --
> > Julian Field
> > www.MailScanner.info
> > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> >

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