MS hangs, unkillable process

[Desai, Jason]

I've found (at least with syslog-ng on Debian) that I need to restart
MailScanner when I rotate my syslogs.  Otherwise MailScanner does not log
again until it restarts.

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 11:43 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] MS hangs, unkillable process
>
>
> At 15:40 02/05/2003, you wrote:
> >Julian,
> >
> >    This has bitten me twice this week.  Nothing has changed recently
> >on my mail server, honest.  Setup: Sun E220R, Solaris 8, MS 4.14-9,
> >SA 2.53, sophos 3.68, sophossavi.  I rotate my syslogs at midnight.
> >Before I stop syslogd, I stop MailScanner in my cron job.  Then
> >I shuffle the syslog files around, restart syslogd, then restart
> >MailScanner.
>
> There is no reason to restart MailScanner in that situation.
> All you need to do is rotate all your syslogs, "kill -HUP"
> your syslogd and
> that's it. There is no reason to stop it at all.
> If you actually stop syslogd, you run the risk of losing logs
> for the time
> this process takes to do.
>
> See /usr/lib/newsyslog.
>
> >   MailScanner doesn't restart.  The next morning, I find
> >one unkillable MS process sitting there.  "kill -9" won't nuke it
> >and I have to reboot to get things going again.  And or course, I
> >have 2K to 3K of backlog from the nighttime that MS has to munch
> >thru, work that can take a couple of hours.  Any ideas, other than
> >maybe install the 4.15 beta?  Do you think that sophossavi might
> >be the problem (my last big change, about a month ago)?
>
> It should still log something if it fails to talk to the
> sophossavi Perl
> module.
> --
> Julian Field
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