Odd messages appearing in my /var/log/message

[Drew Marshall]

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Jason Williams wrote:

> Running FreeBSD 4.9
> Sendmail 8.12.11
> Just upgraded to MS 4.41.3 (latest stable release in FreeBSD ports tree)
>
> This server has been running great for a year. However, i just recently
> upgraded to MS 4.40.1 then MS 4.41.3. After upgrading, I have seen the
> following messages appear in /var/log/messages:
>
> May 20 12:00:23 mail jwilliams: Process did not exit cleanly, returned 9
> with signal 0
> May 20 12:01:24 mail jwilliams: Process did not exit cleanly, returned
> 255 with signal 0
> May 20 12:01:58 mail last message repeated 2 times
> May 20 12:04:10 mail last message repeated 4 times
> May 20 12:13:45 mail last message repeated 10 times
> May 20 12:14:59 mail jwilliams: Process did not exit cleanly, returned
> 255 with signal 0
> May 20 12:16:29 mail jwilliams: Process did not exit cleanly, returned 9
> with signal 0
> May 20 12:16:55 mail jwilliams: Process did not exit cleanly, returned
> 255 with signal 0
> May 20 12:18:40 mail jwilliams: Process did not exit cleanly, returned
> 255 with signal 0
> May 20 12:20:39 mail last message repeated 2 times
>
>
> At this point, im trying to narrow down what it is.
> The first thing I did was stop mailscanner, and tail the message log,
> trying to see if it would happen. I shutdown mailscanner for 10 minutes.
> During that time, there were zero entries in my message logs. (I will
> duplicate this test later this evening when traffic is lighter).

Have you looked at /var/log/maillog? Is there anything there to give you
a clue at around the same time? What was your MTA/ MailScanner doing at
those times?

Drew

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