how to monitor mailscanner is running

[Ugo Bellavance]

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : barry [mailto:myeasytech at YAHOO.COM.HK]
>Envoyé : 31 mars, 2004 09:38
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Re: how to monitor mailscanner is running
>
>
>No.The Mailscanner is running normally before. I can see both
>mailscanner processes and sendmail processes were running.
>/etc/rc.d/init.d/mailscanner --status show ok. But mailscanner stop
>function suddenly though I restart the Mailscanner daemon. I must stop
>mailscanner and make sure that there is no other sendmail processes  is
>running. I just want to know is there any other way to check 
>mailscanner
>is functioning except checked with maillog.


You could use webmin's process check functions if you have it installed.

Ugo
>
>> Sounds like your original sendmail process(es) are still running.
>> If MailScanner stops, no  mail should flow at all. If you are getting
>> mail
>> out of the computer at all, then you haven't stopped the original
>> sendmail
>> installation and you urgently need to fix that.
>>
>> At 12:37 31/03/2004, you wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
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