mailscanner problems

[Grzesiek Sedek]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 05:02:38PM +0000, Grzesiek Sedek wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 03:34:13PM +0000, Grzesiek Sedek wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 07:57:48AM -0500, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> > > >Mar 24 12:18:45 mail MailScanner[25680]: Cannot create + lock headers
> > > >file /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/24449/1B67L2-0006jv-Mo.header,
> > >
> > > Have you searched the archives?
> > >
> > > Please do homework before posting.
> > > >
> > Main problem is that "Cannot create + lock headers" does not happen
> > before there is over 100 Mailscanners in memory - so it's more an effect
> > rather than cause. I still dont understand why Mailscanner after
> > finishing scan does not quit memory. What would cause this? could it be
> > something to do with PPC arch?
> > G.
> Just little more info...
> Mailscanner starts with ie: 2 child ps email comes in, it's beeing
> scanned, delivered to outgoing dir and then weird happens child process
> is dettaching itself and stay in memory. Killing main ms with it's pid
> leaves dettached processes in memory...
> Any ideas?
> Thanks.
> G.

OK I think I found the problem, detached processes are 'batch' delivery
attempts...