Cannot start mailScanner all of a sudden

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Oct 5 09:25:34 IST 2004


<x-flowed>
I didn't mean you to run the cron job. That is designed to do exactly what
it did.
I meant you to run the command which is on root's $PATH in /usr/sbin.

At 09:21 05/10/2004, you wrote:
>root at srv08 [/etc/cron.hourly]# ./check*
>MailScanner manually shut down (no /var/lock/subsys/MailScanner.off file).
>Not restarting.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>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.
> >------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------ To
> >unsubscribe, email <jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.htm>jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with
> >the words:
> >'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
> >Before posting, read the MAQ
> >(<http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/>http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/)
> >and the archives
> >(<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html>http://www.jiscmail.ac.u
>k/lists/mailscanner.html).
> >
>
>--
>Julian Field
>www.MailScanner.info
>MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
>Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store
>
>PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
>
>------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
>To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
>'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
>Before posting, read the MAQ (http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/) and
>the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).
>
>------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
>To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
>'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
>Before posting, read the MAQ (http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/) and
>the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).

--
Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store

PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654

------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
Before posting, read the MAQ (http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/) and
the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).
</x-flowed>



More information about the MailScanner mailing list