Mailscanner not restarting

[Julian Field]

At 16:02 15/04/2004, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We're running mailscanner on a HP-UX 11i system and once in a while
>/var/spool/mqueue.in fills up with lots of messages and mail won't be
>delivered anymore.
>Killing all mailscanner processes and starting it again with
>check_mailscanner solves this problem.
>However, it seems like mailscanner doesn't restart every 4 hours like it is
>supposed to do.
>
>
>Which file/command is responsible for the actual restarting ?

It's in MailScanner itself. The child processes die of old age and are
re-spawned by the parent. The parent is very simple once it gets to the
stage of starting children and doesn't the opportunity to leak any memory
or anything like that.
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Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
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