MailScanner stops running

[Gib Gilbertson Jr.]

HI.

At 08:30 PM 5/8/2004 -0300, you wrote:
>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.

Done and no effect. Everything is working fine now.. Very strange glitch.
If there was a drive failure, there wouldn't have even been the logs to read.

It's working fine now with spamassassin turned back on and I'll just have
to keep an eye on it.

Thanks


>Miguel
>
>--
>Konsultex Informatica (http://www.konsultex.com.br)
>
>---------- 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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