how to monitor mailscanner is running

[Spicer, Kevin]

Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions wrote:
> 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 
> 
You should ensure that sendmail can't start on its own by disabling it's init script (chkconfig sendmail off on many systems).  Its also a good idea to add deliberate syntax errors into the /etc/sysconfig/sendmail file - to prevent it getting re-enabled.

The current version of MailScanner-MRTG (disclaimer: I'm the maintainer) will restart MailScanner if the number of MailScanner processes drops below a certain level.  A future version is planned to include some means of alerting based on various criteria.



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