Problem with PID file

[Tom Suter]

Solved the problem. There were a few zombie mailscanner processes hanging
when I restarted MailScanner. I killed them manually. Don't know why they
were hanging. Any clues are appreciated.


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Of Ugo Bellavance
Sent: zondag 30 mei 2004 21:12
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Problem with PID file

Tom Suter wrote:

> Hello,
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> I have a problem with the pid file. I get the following error:
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> May 30 20:41:02 ns1 sendmail[20315]: i4UIewc20315:
> from=<simokaka at hotmail.com>, size=39811, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<200405301840.i4UIewc20315 at ns1.domeinnaamserver.nl>,
> bodytype=8BITMIME, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA,
> relay=nm-hes-20cc1.adsl.wanadoo.nl [81.70.42.193]
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> May 30 20:41:03 ns1 MailScanner[20179]: Could not open file
>  >/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/20179/i4UIewc20315.header: No such
> file or directory
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> May 30 20:41:03 ns1 MailScanner[20179]: Cannot create + lock headers
> file /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/20179/i4UIewc20315.header,
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> May 30 20:41:03 ns1 MailScanner[20385]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.22-5 starting...
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> May 30 20:41:03 ns1 MailScanner[20385]: Could not read file
> /var/run/MailScanner.pid
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> May 30 20:41:03 ns1 MailScanner[20385]: Error in line 101, file
> "/var/run/MailScanner.pid" for pidfile does not exist (or can not be read)
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> When I create the file by hand it works for a couple of minutes and
> starts scanning mail. After a few minutes the whole thing starts all
> over again.
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> Anyone a clue?

OS? MTA?

Permission problems?

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> Thanks in advance,
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> Tom Suter
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