SV: Latest Stable MailScanner

[Julian Field]

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If you look at the process IDs of the defunct processes, you will find 
that they actually are constantly changing, and are therefore not the 
same defunct processes at all. MailScanner does generate defunct 
processes which live for a second or two before being reaped. It 
generates a steady stream of them, which it constantly reaps. This is 
all quite normal.

Steen, Glenn wrote:

>Defunct processes are a normal occurence (harmless things at that, only "occupying" a PID until the "parent" reaps them by wait()... so that noone accidentally signals the wrong process or somesuch:), so unless you have any other problem indicators... I wouldn't worry too much:).
>
>-- Glenn
>
>-----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
>Från:	MailScanner mailing list genom Michael H. Martel
>Skickat:	må 2005-06-06 14:34
>Till:	MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Kopia:	
>Ã^Ämne:	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 ?
>
>[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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>
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