Starting of MailScanner and still Running

[Mike Kercher]

Marcel Blenkers wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> as stated before, i updated to the latest version of MailScanner
>
> But after i started the MailScanner-Task again, i saw the following
> in the
> Mail-Log:
>
> Oct  7 13:27:26 marcel sendmail-client[8050]: starting daemon
> (8.12.6):
> queueing
> @00:30:00
> Oct  7 13:27:26 marcel sendmail-out[8054]: starting daemon (8.12.6):
> queueing at 00
>> 30:00
> Oct  7 13:27:29 marcel MailScanner[8074]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> Scanner versi on 4.34.8 starting...
> Oct  7 13:27:33 marcel MailScanner[8076]: Using locktype = flock Oct
> 7 13:27:33 marcel MailScanner[8076]: New Batch: Found 5 messages
> waiting Oct  7 13:27:33 marcel MailScanner[8076]: New Batch: Scanning
> 1 messages, 1647 b
> ytes
> Oct  7 13:27:37 marcel MailScanner[8076]: Virus and Content Scanning:
> Starting
> Oct  7 13:27:39 marcel MailScanner[8092]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> Scanner versi on 4.34.8 starting...
> Oct  7 13:27:42 marcel MailScanner[8076]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
> messages Oct  7 13:27:44 marcel MailScanner[8109]: Using locktype =
> flock Oct  7 13:27:51 marcel MailScanner[8108]: Using locktype =
> flock Oct  7 13:27:53 marcel MailScanner[8074]: Using locktype =
> flock Oct  7 13:28:02 marcel MailScanner[8114]: Using locktype =
> flock Oct  7 13:28:04 marcel sendmail[8104]: i9778pTS031606:
> to=<marcel at sms-addicts.de
>> , delay=04:19:13, xdelay=00:00:22, mailer=local, pri=120385,
>> dsn=2.0.0,
> stat=Se
> nt
> Oct  7 13:28:04 marcel MailScanner[8092]: Using locktype = flock
>
>
>
> As it only starts 2 instances of MailScanner, i am wondering where
> all these
>
> Using locktype = flock
>
> came from
>
> after i checked the Tasks via ps i saw upto 6 MailScanner tasks and 2
> of them are running for about 1 or 2 days by now..
>
> so i killed them.,,
>
> because..they were running even i stopped MailScanner with
>


What is your Max Children set to in /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf?  6
processes sounds about right if you have the default of 5 max children.

Mike

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