MailScanner spawning extra processes

[Julian Field]

Do the PIDs of the orphan processes stay constant? Or is it actually a
whole string of short-lived processes being created?

At 14:56 26/09/2003, you wrote:
>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,
>
>
>
>__________________________________________________________________________
>Roger Blayney                                    R.Blayney at greenwich.ac.uk
>Computing Services
>University of Greenwich
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