Latest Stable MailScanner

[Michael H. Martel]

hello!

I just tried to upgrade to the latest stable version of MailScanner on my 
production box.  When I launch MailScanner, everything seems to be fine. 
However, I start seeing defunct processes for MailScanner after a very 
short time (seconds).

Using the last stable vesion I can do :

[root at hemlock opt]# ps -eaf | grep Mail
root     12265     1  0 08:29 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl 
-I/opt/MailScanner
root     12266 12265  1 08:29 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/perl 
-I/opt/MailScanner
root     12321 12265  1 08:29 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/perl 
-I/opt/MailScanner
root     12339 12265  1 08:29 ?        00:00:03 /usr/bin/perl 
-I/opt/MailScanner
root     12427 12265  1 08:30 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/perl 
-I/opt/MailScanner
root     12558 12265  1 08:30 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/perl 
-I/opt/MailScanner
root     12785 25309  0 08:32 pts/0    00:00:00 grep Mail

Using the latest Stable version, almost everytime I do the same command I 
see the following :

[root at hemlock log]# ps -eaf | grep Mail
root     12013     1  0 08:27 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl 
-I/opt/MailScanner
root     12014 12013  6 08:27 ?        00:00:02 [MailScanner <defunct>]
root     12051 12013  8 08:27 ?        00:00:02 [MailScanner <defunct>]
root     12067 12013 14 08:27 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/perl 
-I/opt/MailScanner
root     12092 12013 52 08:27 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/perl 
-I/opt/MailScanner
root     12095 25309  0 08:27 pts/0    00:00:00 grep Mail


It looks like I start getting defunct processes almost immediately after 
launching it.  MailScanner -v gives me the following.

Thoughts ?

[root at hemlock opt]#  /opt/MailScanner-4.42.9/bin/MailScanner -v
Running on
Linux hemlock.vsc.edu 2.4.20-28.7smp #1 SMP Thu Dec 18 11:18:31 EST 2003 
i686 unknown
This is Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
This is Perl version 5.008006 (5.8.6)

This is MailScanner version 4.42.9
Module versions are:
1.00    AnyDBM_File
1.14    Archive::Zip
1.03    Carp
1.119   Convert::BinHex
1.00    DirHandle
1.05    Fcntl
2.73    File::Basename
2.08    File::Copy
2.01    FileHandle
1.06    File::Path
0.16    File::Temp
1.29    HTML::Entities
3.45    HTML::Parser
2.30    HTML::TokeParser
1.21    IO
1.10    IO::File
1.123   IO::Pipe
1.50    Mail::Header
3.05    MIME::Base64
5.417   MIME::Decoder
5.417   MIME::Decoder::UU
5.417   MIME::Head
5.417   MIME::Parser
3.03    MIME::QuotedPrint
5.417   MIME::Tools
0.10    Net::CIDR
1.08    POSIX
1.77    Socket
0.05    Sys::Syslog
1.02    Time::localtime

Optional module versions are:
1.811   DB_File
1.08    Digest
1.01    Digest::HMAC
2.33    Digest::MD5
2.10    Digest::SHA1
0.44    Inline
missing Mail::ClamAV
3.000003        Mail::SpamAssassin
1.997   Mail::SPF::Query
0.15    Net::CIDR::Lite
0.48    Net::DNS
0.32    Net::LDAP
1.94    Parse::RecDescent
missing SAVI
1.2     Sys::Hostname::Long
2.42    Test::Harness
0.47    Test::Simple
1.95    Text::Balanced
1.35    URI


Michael

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   Michael H. Martel              | Systems Administrator
   michael.martel at vsc.edu         | Vermont State Colleges
   http://www.vsc.edu/~michael    | PH:802-241-2544 FX:802-241-3363

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