Error Message

[Julian Field]

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At 16:32 24/08/2004, you wrote:
>All,
>
>         Today, I saw in a log file a warning (or error) message.
>
>Aug 24 11:18:06 mx5 MailScanner[28664]: MailScanner child caught a SIGHUP
>Aug 24 11:18:09 mx5 MailScanner[28664]: Commercial virus checker failed
>with real error: Can't call method "read" on an undefined value at
>/usr/libdata/perl5/5.00503/File/Path.pm line 171, <GEN617> chunk 50.
>
>         Anybody knows what causes it ? It does coincide (3 secs after
> that) with me doing kill -15 `head -1 /var/run/MailScanner.pid`. And
> restart MailScanner.

As it coincided with you killing MailScanner, it's just the fact that it
was running the external virus scanner at the time, which you also
inevitably killed.
--
Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

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