rogue MailScanner processes

[Julian Field]

Can you try upgrading one of the troublesome systems to 4.25 and see if
that fixes the problem?
You will need to install Net::CIDR and then upgrade the MS rpm.
At 19:21 03/11/2003, you wrote:
>I have 4 RH9 boxes running MS 4.24.  The install process was the same on
>each, and I copied the config files from one box to all the others.  After
>2 weeks of operation, one of the boxes began to stop delivering mail at
>irregular intervals, although postfix kept accepting mail and storing it in
>the postfix.in queue.  Stopping and starting MailScanner would start the
>mail being processed again.  I noticed that although MS is supposed to
>restart itself every 4 hours, when mail stops I find older MS children
>using 80-99% CPU each.  Sometimes killing just one of the rogue processes
>is enough to start mail flowing again - I suspect that would always work if
>I selected the correct process.  Any ideas where to look?
>
>hermit921
>
># ps -ef |grep Mail
>postfix   6399     1  0 Nov02 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl
>-I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>postfix  16265  6399 81 Nov02 ?        20:24:40 /usr/bin/perl
>-I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>postfix  16435  6399 81 Nov02 ?        19:57:56 /usr/bin/perl
>-I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>postfix  21172  6399  0 09:01 ?        00:00:10 /usr/bin/perl
>-I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>postfix  21431  6399  0 09:03 ?        00:00:04 /usr/bin/perl
>-I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>postfix  21491  6399  0 09:03 ?        00:00:04 /usr/bin/perl
>-I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf

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