defunct mailscanner

[Daniel Tan]

removed sa checks then restart mailscanner and it works...removed rpm
spamassassin and reinstalled the latest version in .tar.gz format...enabled
sa and it works again...thanks...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Dijkxhoorn" <raymond at PROLOCATION.NET>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: defunct mailscanner


Hi!

> how come when i do a top on my server..i can see mailscanner <defunct>
> beside it....
> another qn....do i need to specify this
> ( -ODeliveryMode=queueonly -OQueueDirectory=
> /var/spool/mqueue.in) in the latest version of mailscanner in
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail?

Most likely due to misconfigurations. I had this for example when i
enabled spamassassin and sa wasnt working like it should.

Do you have sa installed, and enabled in mailscanner ? If so, please
disable it and see if its running afterwards.

Bye,
Raymond.