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Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Sep 2 10:18:45 IST 2004


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What is your "Restart Every" setting set to? After that number of seconds,
the child process will be killed off and restarted. This handles any memory
leaks or other resource leaks in the child processes (or in Perl itself).

At 10:03 02/09/2004, you wrote:
>Hi there i have been running mailscanner-4.29.7 on
>solaris 8 sparc with perl 5.8.3 together wiht sendmail
>8.12.10.
>
>Lately if have notice this strage log :-
>
>[10076]: Spam Checks: Starting
>Sep  2 16:09:14 explorer at rubesg.com
>MailScanner[10076]: Virus and Content Scanning:
>Starting
>Sep  2 16:09:17 explorer at rubesg.com
>MailScanner[10076]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
>Sep  2 16:09:17 explorer at rubesg.com
>MailScanner[10076]: MailScanner child dying of old age
>Sep  2 16:09:17 explorer at rubesg.com
>MailScanner[11149]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>version 4.29.7 starting...
>Sep  2 16:09:18 explorer at rubesg.com
>MailScanner[11149]: Using Custom Function file
>/opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/CustomFunc
>tions/MyExample.pm
>Sep  2 16:09:21 explorer at rubesg.com
>MailScanner[11149]: Using locktype = flock
>Sep  2 16:09:27 explorer sendmail[11148]: [ID 801593
>mail.crit] i8289B8i011135: SYSERR(root): header syntax
>error, line "X-Mak
>mal Consulting-MailScanner-Information: Please contact
>the ISP for more information"
>
>I have notice that it says "Mailscanner child dying of
>old age"
>Can anyone pls let tell me what does it means.

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