MailScanner repeatedly restarting {Scanned by HJMS}

[Furnish, Trever G]

Did you set the LANG value to en-us?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stanier, Alan M [mailto:alan at ESSEX.AC.UK]
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 5:27 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: MailScanner repeatedly restarting {Scanned by HJMS}
>
>
> 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
>
> --------
> Alan Stanier
> Essex University Information Systems Services
> Systems Group
>