processes {Scanned by HJMS}

[Furnish, Trever G]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Willem Kuiters [mailto:wkuiters at FREE.FR]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 5:36 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: processes {Scanned by HJMS}
>
> Here's what 'pstree -ap' gives me three hours after startup:
>
> init,1
>   |-(MailScanner,230)
>   |   `-(MailScanner,232)
>   |-(MailScanner,673)
>   |   `-(MailScanner,674)
>   |-(MailScanner,1202)
>   |   `-(MailScanner,1203)
>   |-(MailScanner,1668)
>   |   `-(MailScanner,1669)
>   |-(MailScanner,1690)
>   |   `-(MailScanner,1691)
> ......

Well that shows each mailscanner parent with one child, so that part's
working at least, but it doesn't seem like you ought to have more than two
processes based on your settings below.

If you do ps auxww |less, perhaps the STAT column will show something
interesting?  Other than that you have me stumped (but that doesn't take
much, so don't worry).

> > What do you have your "Restart Every" value set at in the
> MailScanner.conf
> > file?
>
> "Restart Every = 14400"
>
> > What do you have "Max Children" set to?
>
> "Max Children = 1"

Have you tried enabling both mailscanner and spamassassin debugging?  If you
use trace to attach to the oldest child process, is it actually doing
anything?  Seems like it ought to be at least scanning the mailq every few
seconds.

-t.