Feature Idea: MailScanner process name

[Martin Hepworth]

Hi Steve

Have you tested this on non-linux systems?

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Martin Hepworth 
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Steve Freegard
> Sent: 08 December 2005 16:37
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [MAILSCANNER] Feature Idea: MailScanner process name
> 
> Hi Julian,
> 
> I was looking at a live system recently when I came up with the idea of
> changing the MailScanner process name according to what it is doing
> (similar to sendmail - where you can see exactly what it is doing by
> running 'ps').
> 
> For example - in the current version a 'ps -o pid,state,command -xf' on
> a Linux-based MailScanner system will give you something like:
> 
>  6089 S sendmail: accepting connections
>  6098 S sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/mqueue
>  6116 S /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc
>  4402 S \_ /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
> 10084 S \_ /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
> 14729 S \_ /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
> 21996 S \_ /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
> 28135 S \_ /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
> 
> So I modified several files to set the process name according to the
> action being taken - which then gives:
> 
>  3353 S sendmail: accepting connections
>  3362 S sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/mqueue
>  3413 S MailScanner
>  3486 S  \_ MailScanner: Waiting for messages
>  3497 S  \_ MailScanner: Waiting for messages
>  3509 S  \_ MailScanner: Waiting for messages
>  3518 S  \_ MailScanner: Waiting for messages
>  3528 S  \_ MailScanner: Waiting for messages
> 
> and when a batch is being processed:
> 
>  3413 S MailScanner
>  3486 S  \_ MailScanner: Waiting for messages
>  3497 S  \_ MailScanner: Waiting for messages
>  3509 S  \_ MailScanner: Waiting for messages
>  3518 S  \_ MailScanner: Virus Scanning
>  3547 Ss |   \_ /bin/sh /usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-wrapper /
>  3552 R  |     \_ /usr/bin/clamscan --unzip --jar --tar --t
>  3528 S  \_ MailScanner: Waiting for messages
> 
> I'm not sure how portable this is across systems or if anyone other than
> me might find this useful (plus a lot of testing would be needed as
> check_MailScanner needed modification), but I've attached the diffs each
> of the modified files again the current stable release.
> 
> What do you think??
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve.
> 
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