how to monitor mailscanner is running

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

There are a couple of ways you can do this. If you use:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner status
you should see if the process is running or not and script it to act
accordingly.
Another thing would be to monitor the process using something like uptime

M

Mr. Michele Neylon
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of barry
> Sent: 31 March 2004 12:38
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [MAILSCANNER] how to monitor mailscanner is running
>
>
> A busy server which I administer stop running MailScanner suddenly two
> days ago. The sendmail was still running and receiving email. Only the
> MailScanner  stop running because I found that there is no mailscanner
> header in all email received.  There were no error messages when I
> restarted the MailScanner services. I can still see the Mailscanner
> process is running. But the MailScanner still not function as there
> still no mailscanner header in all new email received. MailScanner can
> only work again until I kill all running sendmail processes and
> restarted the MailScanner again.
> My question is how can I monitor MailScanner is running and doing its
> function.
>