4.39.5-1 - is sendmail locking broken again?

[Quentin Campbell]

In addition to the locking problem I reported with 4.39.5 I also note
that the MailScanner processes are becoming "defunct". There is no
indication of a problem in the MailScanner log.

However the "messages" file is repeatedly logging:

Mar  2 10:06:49 cheviot7 root: Process did not exit cleanly, returned 25
with signal 0 


Quentin 
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>Sent: 02 March 2005 08:24
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: 4.39.5-1 - is sendmail locking broken again?
>
>With 4.39.5-1 I notice that jobs are being repeatedly re-scanned by MS
>again. This last happened with 4.35.11-1 back in December. It was fixed
>by updating to the latest RedHat AS/ES 3 kernel.
>
>I have not updated the kernel since I installed 4.38.9-1 which worked
>OK.
>
>I have RH AS 3 + Sendmail 8.12.11 + 4.39.5-1.
>
>Locking has been defaulting to "flock". Changing it to "posix" does not
>stop the re-scanning of the same messages. 
>
>Quentin
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