ANYONE ??? Uninstall and install the new version. {Scanned }

[Remco Barendse]

Hehehe :)

It sure isn't MailScanner, i had a RedHat 6.2 box that went through the
500 days uptime limit without a single reboot and it has been running
MailScanner for ages.

The box isn't even connected to a ups :)


On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Furnish, Trever G wrote:

> > I have Version 4.22-5. I have to reboot my mail server everyweek do to
> > memory problems with Mailscanner.
>
> No offense, but I sincerely doubt that.  At the very least, if you *have* to
> reboot to clear the problem, then the problem is absolutely NOT with
> mailscanner but is instead with your OS.  When an application exits, the OS
> should clean up all memory used by it - if it fails to do so, the fault
> belongs to the OS, not the application.  In other words, instead of
> rebooting, you ought to just restart MailScanner.
>
> But mailscanner also has an option in its config file that tells it how
> often to restart itself - what do you have that set to?
>
> And it might help if you let us know exactly what you mean by "memory
> problems".
>
> --
> Trever
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David [mailto:maillist at COMPUTER-MEDIC.US]
> > Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 1:26 PM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: ANYONE ??? Uninstall and install the new version. {Scanned}
> > {Scanned by HJMS}
> >
> >
> > I have Version 4.22-5. I have to reboot my mail server everyweek do to
> > memory problems with Mailscanner. I would like to upgrade if
> > this fixes the
> > problem. If it will can I just install over the old version?
> > Is there any
> > step to upgrade?
> > Please let me know.
> >
> > Thanks, David
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:14:56 +0100, Spicer, Kevin
> > <Kevin.Spicer at BMRB.CO.UK>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > David wrote:
> > >> Hello All, I'm running a older version of Mailscanner and
> > I'm running
> > >> in to the memory leak problem for sometime now. I see that
> > there is a
> > >> new version out and would like to know how to uninstall the old
> > >> version and install the new version. Not so much the new
> > version but
> > >> if there is anything I should do. I would like to unstall the old
> > >> version then install the new one. Also is there anything I
> > can do to
> > >> stop the memory leak before I make the change to the new version?
> > >> Please let me know.
> > >
> > >
> > > The transistion from earlier v4 installs is very easy.  v3
> > installs are a
> > > little more comp-licated to upgrade.  Which do you have?
> > >
> > >
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