rogue MailScanner processes

[hermit921]

Eventually we decided it was a corrupt sophossavi module and we are waiting
to see if it fails again.  We don't know why the module worked fine for 2
weeks before failing, but that is computers.  If it fails again in 2 weeks,
I will be upset.

hermit921

At 11:40 AM 11/3/2003, Julian Field wrote:
>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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