processes {Scanned by HJMS}

[Julian Field]

What happens when MailScanner is running and you do a "check_mailscanner"?
You might need to tweak that script a bit if it says "Starting MailScanner".

At 22:05 17/09/2003, you wrote:
>'lut MailScanner,
>
>On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 12:36:00PM +0200, Willem Kuiters wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 04:16:46PM -0500, Furnish, Trever G wrote:
> >
> > > So you think the MailScanner processes are building up.
> > >
> > > Then specifying your platform and using options from ps other than 
> just -A
> > > would be helpful. :-)  I assume it's Linux since the log mentions that.
> >
> > I thought I mentioned Debian, but, yes, it's a PC with linux.
> >
> > > That gives a much more useful display, at least on HPUX and Linux, don't
> > > have the rest available to test on.  On Linux, you may also get more info
> > > from 'ps auxww' or 'pstree -ap | less'.
>
>Here's what 'pstree -ap' gives me after a day:
>
>
>init,1
>   |-(MailScanner,230)
>   |   `-(MailScanner,2938)
>   |-(MailScanner,673)
>   |   `-(MailScanner,1994)
>   |-(MailScanner,1202)
>   |   `-(MailScanner,2195)
>   |-(MailScanner,1668)
>   |   `-(MailScanner,3138)
>   |-(MailScanner,1690)
>   |   `-(MailScanner,3128)
>   |-(MailScanner,1983)
>   |   `-(MailScanner,2882)
>   |-(MailScanner,2162)
>   |   `-(MailScanner,2163)
>   |-(MailScanner,2561)
>   |   `-(MailScanner,2562)
>   |-(MailScanner,2699)
>   |   `-(MailScanner,3075)
>   |-(MailScanner,2835)
>   |   `-(MailScanner,2836)
>   |-(MailScanner,2951)
>   |   `-(MailScanner,2952)
>   |-(MailScanner,3035)
>   |   `-(MailScanner,3036)
>   |-(MailScanner,3066)
>   |   `-(MailScanner,3067)
>   |-(MailScanner,3115)
>   |   `-(MailScanner,3116)
>   |-(MailScanner,3157)
>   |   `-(MailScanner,3158)
>   |-(MailScanner,3432)
>   |   `-(MailScanner,3433)
>   |-(atd,251)
>
>It is worrying me. I'm not a specialist. Is this normal?
>
>Willem
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Julian Field
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