4.39.5-1 - is sendmail locking broken again?

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Mar 2 11:08:25 GMT 2005


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Quentin Campbell wrote:

>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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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list
>>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Quentin Campbell
>>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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