MailScanner repeatedly restarting

[Denis Beauchemin]

My 3 RH 7.3 boxes are running just fine here (MS 4.23-11 and SA 2.60).

Denis

Le jeu 02/10/2003 à 22:17, Noway a écrit :
> Time to update to RedHat 9.0
> 
> 
> 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
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Denis Beauchemin, analyste
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