Strange Problem since yesterday

[Michael Meyer]

hi,

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ps aux

root     10317  1.1  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    14:54   0:04 [MailScanner <defunct>]
root     10320  1.1  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    14:54   0:04 [MailScanner <defunct>]
root     10342  1.2  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    14:55   0:04 [MailScanner <defunct>]
root     10344  1.2  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    14:55   0:04 [MailScanner <defunct>]

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tail -f /var/log/messages

May  7 15:01:59 tux root: Process did not exit cleanly, returned 0 with signal 6

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mails keep staying in /var/spool/mqueue.in.

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tail -f /var/log/mail

May  7 15:08:10 tux MailScanner[10557]: Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist functionality...
May  7 15:08:19 tux MailScanner[10560]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.30.3 starting...
May  7 15:08:20 tux MailScanner[10560]: Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist functionality...
May  7 15:08:29 tux MailScanner[10561]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.30.3 starting...
May  7 15:08:30 tux MailScanner[10561]: Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist functionality...
May  7 15:08:39 tux MailScanner[10563]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.30.3 starting...
May  7 15:08:40 tux MailScanner[10563]: Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist functionality...
May  7 15:08:49 tux MailScanner[10564]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.30.3 starting...
May  7 15:08:50 tux MailScanner[10564]: Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist functionality...
May  7 15:08:59 tux MailScanner[10569]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.30.3 starting...
May  7 15:09:00 tux MailScanner[10569]: Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist functionality...
May  7 15:09:09 tux MailScanner[10570]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.30.3 starting...
May  7 15:09:10 tux MailScanner[10570]: Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist functionality...
May  7 15:09:19 tux MailScanner[10571]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.30.3 starting...
...

this _never_ stops. there are no other messages.

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my configuration works for a long time. i updated today
(after i see there is a problem) to the newest version of mailscanner
and sophos, but this didn`t solves the problem.

before the update i changed nothing. so why mailscanner stops working since yesterday?
im confused. ;)

MailScanner 4.30.3
Sendmail 8.12.10
SuSE 7.1 with kernel 2.2.25
sophos and sophossavi

any ideas?

kind regards

micha

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