MailScanner stops running

[Miguel Koren OBrien de Lacy]

Gib;

Ok, so it does not look like a hardware problem. Did you try to copy a file over to
the directory?

Another idea would be to temporarily change the conf to point to another quarantine
directory, just to see what happens.

Miguel

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Gib Gilbertson Jr." <gib at tmisnet.com>
To: miguelk at konsultex.com.br
Sent: Sun, 09 May 2004 09:15:07 +1000
Subject: Re: MailScanner stops running

> Hi.
> 
> At 07:50 PM 5/8/2004 -0300, you wrote:
> >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
> >
> >--
> >Konsultex Informatica (http://www.konsultex.com.br)
> The /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine directory is on the same partition as 
> the 10K queued messages, and the log files that were still recording at the 
> time the error was generated.
> 
> #  df
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ar0s1e   4129310  1633555  2165411    43%    /var
> 
> This was the output of df at the time of discovering the failure, so the 
> disk wasn't full, and we are also running mirroring (raid 1) on that drive 
> which has /home and /var on it.
> 
> gib
> 
> >---------- 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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