MS hangs, unkillable process

[Julian Field]

At 17:57 02/05/2003, you wrote:
>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.

Is that also true when you just "kill -HUP" the syslogd instead of
restarting it?


>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
> > www.MailScanner.info
> > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> >

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