MailScanner repeatedly restarting

[Patel, Anjana]

I am seeing similar defunct processes on my test installation of 4.23-11
on RedHat 7.3.  They seem to appear within split seconds of starting up
mailscanner and increase in number.  The number of defunct processes
seems to be related to the number of mailscanner processes you chose
i.e. if Max Children = 5 then there's 5 defunct processes etc. where
each defunct process is a child of one of the processes.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stanier, Alan M [mailto:alan at ESSEX.AC.UK]
> Sent: 02 October 2003 11:27
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: MailScanner repeatedly restarting
> 
> 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