Latest Stable MailScanner

[David Jacobson]

Hi Steve,

The defunctional process behavior is normal, and is by design according
to Julian.  I doubt there's anything wrong with his configuration.

Regards,
David

On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 09:17 -0400, Stephen Swaney wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> > Behalf Of Michael H. Martel
> > Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 8:34 AM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Latest Stable MailScanner
> > 
> > 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 ?
> > 
> 
> You probably have a configuration error. Please set 
> 
> 	Debug = yes 
> 
> And if you are using SpamAssassin 
> 
> 	Debug SpamAssassin = yes
> 
> In MailScanner.conf and restart MailScanner. The configuration error should
> show up in the screen output. 
> 
> If you have a problem finding the error, please post the output to the list.
> 
> Steve
> 
> Steve Swaney
> President
> Fortress Systems Ltd.
> Phone: 202 338-1670
> Cell: 202 352-3262
> www.fsl.com
> steve.swaney at fsl.com
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