MailScanner not processing mail, appears to keep dying...

[Kevin Hanser]

I am having a strange problem w/a new MailScanner installation... I had
MailScanner installed on this machine previously, but have recently
reloaded it.  Strange thing is, it was working @ one time, and I'm not
sure why it's not now...


As far as I can tell, MailScanner keeps dying when it starts up.  I see
logs like this:

Jan 21 17:54:11 opti MailScanner[32496]: Enabling SpamAssassin
auto-whitelist functionality...
Jan 21 17:54:20 opti MailScanner[32499]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.37.7 starting...
Jan 21 17:54:21 opti MailScanner[32499]: Enabling SpamAssassin
auto-whitelist functionality...
Jan 21 17:54:36 opti MailScanner[32600]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.37.7 starting...
Jan 21 17:54:38 opti MailScanner[32600]: Enabling SpamAssassin
auto-whitelist functionality...
Jan 21 17:54:46 opti MailScanner[32610]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.37.7 starting...
Jan 21 17:54:47 opti MailScanner[32610]: Enabling SpamAssassin
auto-whitelist functionality...

(over and over and over again)


I know mail is coming in, but MailScanner just isn't processing it:

Jan 21 17:55:01 opti sendmail[32616]: j0LMt1UN032616: from=root,
size=334, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<200501212255.j0LMt1UN032616 at opti.hanser.org>,
relay=root at localhost
Jan 21 17:55:01 opti sm-mta[32617]: j0LMt1rd032617:
from=<root at opti.hanser.org>, size=591, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<200501212255.j0LMt1UN032616 at opti.hanser.org>, proto=ESMTP,
daemon=MTA, relay=opti.hanser.org [127.0.0.1]
Jan 21 17:55:02 opti sendmail[32616]: j0LMt1UN032616: to=root,
ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay,
pri=30334, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
(j0LMt1rd032617 Message accepted for delivery)
Jan 21 17:55:06 opti MailScanner[32618]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.37.7 starting...
Jan 21 17:55:07 opti MailScanner[32618]: Enabling SpamAssassin
auto-whitelist functionality...


And my processes look like this:

j at opti j $ ps -ef | grep Mail
root     31736     1  0 17:50 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl
-I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner
/opt/MailScanner/etc/MailScanner.conf
root     32138 31736  6 17:52 ?        00:00:02 [MailScanner] <defunct>
root     32140 31736  8 17:52 ?        00:00:02 [MailScanner] <defunct>
root     32142 31736 11 17:52 ?        00:00:02 [MailScanner] <defunct>
root     32144 31736 20 17:52 ?        00:00:02 [MailScanner] <defunct>
root     32356 31736 67 17:52 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/perl
-I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner
/opt/MailScanner/etc/MailScanner.conf
j        32421 28542  0 17:53 pts/0    00:00:00 grep Mail


And then if I wait a few seconds and look @ the processes again, I have:

j at opti j $ ps -ef | grep Mail
root     31736     1  0 17:50 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl
-I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner
/opt/MailScanner/etc/MailScanner.conf
root     32138 31736  6 17:52 ?        00:00:02 [MailScanner] <defunct>
root     32140 31736  8 17:52 ?        00:00:02 [MailScanner] <defunct>
root     32142 31736 11 17:52 ?        00:00:02 [MailScanner] <defunct>
root     32144 31736 20 17:52 ?        00:00:02 [MailScanner] <defunct>
root     32356 31736 71 17:53 ?        00:00:02 [MailScanner] <defunct>
j        32443 28542  0 17:53 pts/0    00:00:00 grep Mail


Which seems to indicate the process that was starting up @ the bottom of
the list (32356), is now defunct.

Any ideas on what's going on here...?

Thx!

k

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