Cannot start mailScanner all of a sudden

Tue Oct 5 08:55:24 IST 2004

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All of a sudden we are seeing huge loads from MailScanner.
Reason is because it cannot start. Don&#8217;t know why but this is what we are
seeing, pages and pages of these.<o:p></o:p>

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Oct&nbsp; 5 03:24:28 srv08 MailScanner[22370]: MailScanner
E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.34.8 starting... <o:p></o:p>

Oct&nbsp; 5 03:24:38 srv08 MailScanner[22372]: MailScanner
E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.34.8 starting... <o:p></o:p>

Oct&nbsp; 5 03:24:48 srv08 MailScanner[22374]: MailScanner
E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.34.8 starting... <o:p></o:p>

Oct&nbsp; 5 03:24:58 srv08 MailScanner[22376]: MailScanner
E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.34.8 starting... <o:p></o:p>

Oct&nbsp; 5 03:25:08 srv08 MailScanner[22466]: MailScanner
E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.34.8 starting... <o:p></o:p>

Oct&nbsp; 5 03:25:18 srv08 MailScanner[22468]: MailScanner
E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.34.8 starting... <o:p></o:p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Oct&nbsp; 5 03:25:28 srv08 MailScanner[22470]: MailScanner
E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.34.8 starting...<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

We upgraded to 4.34.8 in the hope that this will fix the
issue but it hasn&#8217;t. Same problem. Mailscanner is trying to restart but
it can&#8217;t.<o:p></o:p>

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font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

I reinstall Spamassassin 3.0 which has been more of a pain
than a solution. Still cannot get SA3.0 and MailScanner to work.<o:p></o:p>

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font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

I&#8217;m seeing errors in Spamassassin, something about
parser. That&#8217;s why I tried to re install it using FORCE. That has not
fixed the problem. I don&#8217;t get what the issue is all of a sudden. This
may be a perl 5.8.1 issues but its hard to tell.<o:p></o:p>

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