how to monitor mailscanner is running

[James A. Pattie]

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barry 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.
|

install monit.  It can restart the processes for you if it detects they are not
running.

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James A. Pattie
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Linux -- SysAdmin / Programmer
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