MailScanner will not process mail

[Debbie Odle]

How many child processes do you recommend instead of the default 5...I
am running with default settings.  I've been told that this server has
plenty of ram, & processor speed etc., so I don't believe this is a
hardware problem.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Ugo Bellavance
> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 8:35 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: MailScanner will not process mail
>
> Debbie Odle wrote:
> > No, I don't see anything really in any of the other logs.  During
the
> > time that MailScanner was starting up, the following is from the
> > messages log:
> > Aug  8 10:28:14 jamesbond sendmail: sendmail shutdown succeeded
> > Aug  8 10:28:14 jamesbond sendmail: sm-client shutdown failed
> > Aug  8 10:29:20 jamesbond MailScanner:  succeeded
> > Aug  8 10:49:27 jamesbond last message repeated 3 times
> > Aug  8 10:49:46 jamesbond last message repeated 8 times
> >
> > I did check in /var/run before I started MailScanner to make sure
there
> > was no pid file in there for the sm-client and checked the status of
> > sendmail as well.  All was fine.
> >
> > I'm not sure what you are looking for as far as "hardware
specs"...We
> > are on a Linux box running RedHat 9, sendmail version is 8.12.8,
> > MailScanner version is 4.32.5-1, I have also loaded ClamAV 0.75.1.
> >
>
> Hardware specs: >> Cpu RAM, HDD
>
> MailScanner shouldn't be so slow to start, unless you are running it
> with the default setting of 5 child process and you have 64 MB RAM and
> it starts to swap.
>
> > Everything does seem to be running OK now, though.
> >
> >
> >
>
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