MailScanner stops running

[Miguel Koren OBrien de Lacy]

Gib;

I assume that the directory is really there, right? Maybe you drive is getting some
corruption and that's why MS can't access it. I would try to copy a file to it
(keeping permissions in mind) to see what happens.

Miguel

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Gib Gilbertson Jr." <gib at TMISNET.COM>
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Sun, 9 May 2004 08:42:15 +1000
Subject: MailScanner stops running

> Hi All.
> 
> I encountered a problem today which is very strange. My system has been
> chugging along for quite a while now, and except for the problem with
> corrupt bayes database every 2 or 3 days it has ran great. This morning
> when I check I see there are over 10k messages sitting in /var/spool/mqueue.in.
> 
> I check the logs and can see that MailScanner isn't running. Because of the
> huge number of mails cued up I turn off spamassassin in MailScanner.conf
> and restart MailScanner. Within about 15 minutes it had gone through all
> the messages.
> 
> Now for the problem. After getting things working again, I check my logs
> and find this error message as each child process dies and MailScanner
> tries to restart..
> 
> May  8 04:01:11 MailScanner[33191]: MailScanner child dying of old age
> May  8 04:01:13 MailScanner[73486]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.26.8 starting...
> May  8 04:01:25 MailScanner[73531]: Could not read directory
> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine
> May  8 04:01:25 MailScanner[73531]: Error in configuration file line 113,
> directory /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine for quarantinedir does not
> exist (or is not readable)
> 
> Nothing changed on the sever. No configuration files, quarantine directory,
> etc.. I'm the only one that makes changes to the system.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> gib
> 
>       Gib Gilbertson Jr.
>      Tierramiga Info Systems
>       619-287-8647 Support
>       http://www.tmisnet.com
>       San Diego's "Friendly ISP"
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