MailScanner <defunct> ?

[Kevin Spicer]

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 19:49, Hongwei Li wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed clamav 0.70, spamassassin 2.63 and MailScanner-4.30.3-2 on
> RedHat Fedora Core 1 Linux system with sendmail 8.12.10-1.1.1.  The
> MailScanner was working after the installation (I enabled clamav and sa)
> last week -- I can see the added header lines from the received mails.
> However, since this week, it shows "defunct":
>
> # ps xa | grep Mail
>  3597 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/perl -
> I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.co
> nf
>  4515 ?        Z      0:00 [MailScanner <defunct>]
>  4516 ?        Z      0:00 [MailScanner <defunct>]
>  4517 ?        Z      0:00 [MailScanner <defunct>]
>  4518 ?        Z      0:00 [MailScanner <defunct>]
>  4521 ?        Z      0:00 [MailScanner <defunct>]

Restart MailScanner then check the maillog for errors.  Maybe something
in the config it doesn't like?




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