uvscan does not go away

[David Lee]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Denis Beauchemin wrote:

> Kai Wang wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I found recently that there are some McAfee uvscan process chewing the
> > mail
> > server cpu. MailScanner was the one that started the process. The
> > directory,
> > which MailScanner started the process, disappeared already. But the
> > uvscan
> > process just does not go.
> >
>
> Kai,
>
> It usually happens when I reload MS while MS is virus scanning some
> email.  The uvscan just stays there and consumes CPU.
>
> I call the included script in root's crontab:
> 0-59/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/killOldUvscan

We, too, see these CPU-gobbling uvscan processes after MS reload/restart.
But the suggested crontab method of handling feels less than ideal.

Anyone have any thoughts as to how we might address this more cleanly?
(Can we persuade MS to signal any uvscan children, etc.?)


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