Cannot start mailScanner all of a sudden

[Michael Freeman]

root at srv08 [/etc/cron.hourly]# ./check*
MailScanner manually shut down (no /var/lock/subsys/MailScanner.off file).
Not restarting.

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From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Julian Field
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 4:04 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Cannot start mailScanner all of a sudden

In MailScanner.conf, set
Debug = yes
Then kill all your MailScanner processes. Then run check_mailscanner with
at least 1 message in the incoming queue. That will tell you why it's not
starting.

At 08:55 05/10/2004, you wrote:
>All of a sudden we are seeing huge loads from MailScanner. Reason is
>because it cannot start. Don't know why but this is what we are seeing,
>pages and pages of these.
>
>Oct  5 03:24:28 srv08 MailScanner[22370]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>version 4.34.8 starting...
>Oct  5 03:24:38 srv08 MailScanner[22372]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>version 4.34.8 starting...
>Oct  5 03:24:48 srv08 MailScanner[22374]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>version 4.34.8 starting...
>Oct  5 03:24:58 srv08 MailScanner[22376]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>version 4.34.8 starting...
>Oct  5 03:25:08 srv08 MailScanner[22466]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>version 4.34.8 starting...
>Oct  5 03:25:18 srv08 MailScanner[22468]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>version 4.34.8 starting...
>Oct  5 03:25:28 srv08 MailScanner[22470]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>version 4.34.8 starting...
>
>We upgraded to 4.34.8 in the hope that this will fix the issue but it
>hasn't. Same problem. Mailscanner is trying to restart but it can't.
>
>I reinstall Spamassassin 3.0 which has been more of a pain than a
>solution. Still cannot get SA3.0 and MailScanner to work.
>
>I'm seeing errors in Spamassassin, something about parser. That's why I
>tried to re install it using FORCE. That has not fixed the problem. I
>don't get what the issue is all of a sudden. This may be a perl 5.8.1
>issues but its hard to tell.
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