MailScanner spawning extra processes

[Roger Blayney]

I have just installed MailScanner 4.23-11 on Solaris 8 with Exim.  It is
processing messages successfully, but every time it processes a
message it spawns an additional process which remains there as an
orphan (parent pid = 1).  Max children is set to 5.  The ps output
shows the original parent + 5 children + 3 orphans.  Also, I get two
syslog messages for each email message - one from an original child
and one from the new orphan.  Does anyone have any idea why this is
happening?

    exim  5546     1  0 14:05:53 ?        0:00 /usr/bin/perl -
I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
    exim  5482  5463  0 12:30:32 ?        0:00 /usr/bin/perl -
I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
    exim  5464  5463  0 12:29:51 ?        0:00 /usr/bin/perl -
I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
    exim  5479  5463  1 12:30:12 ?        0:01 /usr/bin/perl -
I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
    exim  5463     1  0 12:29:51 ?        0:00 /usr/bin/perl -
I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
    exim  5470     1  0 12:29:52 ?        0:00 /usr/bin/perl -
I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
    exim  5481  5463  0 12:30:22 ?        0:00 /usr/bin/perl -
I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
    exim  5574     1  0 14:32:58 ?        0:00 /usr/bin/perl -
I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail
    exim  5473  5463  0 12:30:02 ?        0:01 /usr/bin/perl -
I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner /opt/Mail

Sep 26 14:32:57 mousa.gre.ac.uk MailScanner[5479]: New Batch:
Scanning 1 messages, 923 bytes
Sep 26 14:32:58 mousa.gre.ac.uk MailScanner[5479]: Virus and
Content Scanning: Starting
Sep 26 14:32:58 mousa.gre.ac.uk MailScanner[5574]: Uninfected:
Delivered 1 messages
Sep 26 14:32:58 mousa.gre.ac.uk MailScanner[5479]: Uninfected:
Delivered 1 messages

Thanks,



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