MailScanner stops working after dying of old child

[Muenz, Michael]

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Hi again,

> I searched all my logs, especially for HDA errors or something like that,
> but nothing found.
>
> My system is debian woody with postfix 2.0.20 (source), all perl modules
> newest version (source) and MailScanner also 4.42.9. The system is running
> with RAID1 (hardware).
>
> I think that's a problem with I/O but not sure a problem
> with RAID or MailScanner.
>
> Any ideas?

I'm not sure, but in my logs I see after every scan a new
instance of MailScanner is started (and killed):

Jun  6 12:25:38 pns MailScanner[7603]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
Jun  6 12:25:45 pns MailScanner[3132]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.40.11 starting...
Jun  6 12:25:46 pns MailScanner[12989]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 1788
bytes
Jun  6 12:25:46 pns MailScanner[12989]: Spam Checks: Starting
Jun  6 12:25:46 pns MailScanner[12989]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
Jun  6 12:25:46 pns MailScanner[12989]: Requeue: 3E71F58075.C413A to
7D5194C106
Jun  6 12:25:46 pns MailScanner[12989]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
Jun  6 12:25:47 pns MailScanner[3132]: Using locktype = flock
Jun  6 12:26:02 pns MailScanner[3463]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.40.11 starting...
Jun  6 12:26:03 pns MailScanner[3463]: Using locktype = flock
Jun  6 12:26:03 pns MailScanner[3463]: New Batch: Scanning 2 messages, 6368
bytes
Jun  6 12:26:03 pns MailScanner[3463]: Spam Checks: Starting
Jun  6 12:26:03 pns MailScanner[3463]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
Jun  6 12:26:04 pns MailScanner[3463]: Requeue: 07E8358078.8CF81 to
7CBBA4C106
Jun  6 12:26:04 pns MailScanner[3463]: Requeue: 2D8A158075.4C55D to
A78244C107
Jun  6 12:26:04 pns MailScanner[3463]: Uninfected: Delivered 2 messages
Jun  6 12:26:13 pns MailScanner[1439]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.40.11 starting...
Jun  6 12:26:14 pns MailScanner[1439]: Using locktype = flock
Jun  6 12:26:18 pns MailScanner[3463]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 3950
bytes
Jun  6 12:26:18 pns MailScanner[3463]: Spam Checks: Starting
Jun  6 12:26:18 pns MailScanner[3463]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
Jun  6 12:26:18 pns MailScanner[3463]: Requeue: 3B3B658075.A53C3 to
4DFF24C106
Jun  6 12:26:18 pns MailScanner[3463]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
Jun  6 12:26:24 pns MailScanner[3463]: New Batch: Scanning 2 messages, 6288
bytes
Jun  6 12:26:24 pns MailScanner[3463]: Spam Checks: Starting
Jun  6 12:26:24 pns MailScanner[2401]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.40.11 starting...

Is that OK?
Thanks,


Michael

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