MailScanner repeatedly restarting

[Stanier, Alan M]

I've just installed MailScanner 4.23-11 on RedHat9

When I start it up, I see messages in /var/adm/maillog every
10 seconds, saying it is starting, and have various defunct
MS processes.

Can anyone suggest what I might have done wrong, plase?


[root at serlinux15 MailScanner-4.23-11]# cd /var/adm
[root at serlinux15 adm]# tail -f maillog
Oct  2 11:17:15 serlinux15 MailScanner[22187]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.23-11 starting... 
Oct  2 11:17:25 serlinux15 MailScanner[22188]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.23-11 starting... 
Oct  2 11:17:35 serlinux15 MailScanner[22198]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.23-11 starting... 
Oct  2 11:17:45 serlinux15 MailScanner[22199]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.23-11 starting... 
Oct  2 11:17:55 serlinux15 MailScanner[22200]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.23-11 starting... 
Oct  2 11:18:05 serlinux15 MailScanner[22202]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.23-11 starting... 
Oct  2 11:18:15 serlinux15 MailScanner[22203]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.23-11 starting... 
Oct  2 11:18:25 serlinux15 MailScanner[22204]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.23-11 starting... 

[root at serlinux15 adm]# 
[root at serlinux15 adm]# !ps
ps wgaux | grep mail
mail     31963  0.0  0.2  3284 1032 ?        S    Oct01   0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -C /essex/exim/serlinux15_outgoing -q1m
mail      2460  0.0  0.2  3296 1076 ?        S    Oct01   0:02 /usr/sbin/exim -C /essex/exim/serlinux15_incoming -bd
mail     21878  0.0  2.3 15804 11988 ?       S    11:04   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
mail     21879  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    11:04   0:00 [MailScanner <defunct>]
mail     21895  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    11:04   0:00 [MailScanner <defunct>]
mail     21909  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    11:04   0:00 [MailScanner <defunct>]
mail     21919  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    11:04   0:00 [MailScanner <defunct>]
mail     22229  2.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    11:19   0:00 [MailScanner <defunct>]
root     22231  0.0  0.1  3584  616 pts/0    S    11:19   0:00 grep mail

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Alan Stanier
Essex University Information Systems Services
Systems Group