Stray processes on Debain Sarge

[Julian Field]

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I had a French student who I was helping out the other evening. He had
loads of stray Pyzor processes too. He eventually just uninstalled Pyzor
altogether, but he had exactly the same symptoms as you.

Does Pyzor need regular server-name updates like Razor? I don't use
Pyzor myself.

Donovan Jones wrote:

>Hi
>
>I have 2 mailscanner boxes running on Debian sarge. All software is
>currently up to date with whats in sarge, versions are:
>
>razor 2.670-1
>pyzor 0.4.0+cvs20030
>dcc 1.2.74-2
>f-prot 0.5.14
>spamassassin 3.0.2-1
>mailscanner 4.40.11-1
>exim 4.50-4
>
>on both boxes I am having the same problems with stray processes.
>
>I have hundreds of pyzor processes that have not been killed:
>
>mf1:~# ps auxww | grep pyzor | wc -l
>617
>
>each one is keeping a UDP port open (lsof -i output):
>
>pyzor   30845 Debian-exim    3u  IPv4 3426743       UDP *:60561
>
>I am not getting spamassassin timeouts and I am getting PYZOR_CHECK
>matches in my spamassassin reports so pyzor is working but some
>processes don't seem to be killed.
>
>The other problem is MailScanner processes that chew up 100% CPU time.
>These are long running processes that need to be killed manually and
>occur once every few days.
>
>Are these known issues? Does anyone else see the same behavior on Debian
>Sarge? What is the fix? Is there a monitor script I can use or should I
>write my own to kill Mailscanner and pyzor processes older than an hour
>say.
>
>Help appreciated
>
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>Donovan Jones
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