MailScanner repeatedly restarting

[Antony Stone]

On Thursday 02 October 2003 11:26 am, Stanier, Alan M wrote:

> 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?

This is usually an indication of a parsing error in MailScanner.conf

Check your /var/log/syslog to see if you get any more information, or else
start MailScanner manually (/opt/MailScanner/bin/check_mailscanner) and see
what it tells you the error is.

Regards,

Antony.

> 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...

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