Odd messages appearing in my /var/log/message

[Drew Marshall]

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Jason Williams wrote:

> Was just working on that Here is what I found:
>
> /var/log/messags:
> May 20 12:57:32 mail jwilliams: Process did not exit cleanly, returned
> 255 with signal 0
>
> /var/log/maillog (took exact time copies)
>
> May 20 12:57:29 mail MailScanner[79862]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
> 3732 bytes
> May 20 12:57:29 mail MailScanner[79862]: Spam Checks: Starting
> May 20 12:57:31 mail MailScanner[79862]: Virus and Content Scanning:
> Starting
> May 20 12:57:32 mail MailScanner[79862]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
> May 20 12:57:32 mail MailScanner[79876]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> Scanner version 4.41.3 starting...
> May 20 12:57:32 mail MailScanner[79876]: Read 108 hostnames from the
> phishing whitelist
> May 20 12:57:32 mail MailScanner[79876]: Config: calling custom init
> function MailWatchLogging
> May 20 12:57:33 mail sm-mta-in[79877]: j4KJvWfI079877:
> from=<security-basics-return-34009-jwilliams=courtesymortgage.com at securityfocus.com>,
>
> size=2013, class=-60, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<20050520054840.38424.qmail at web51609.mail.yahoo.com>, proto=ESMTP,
> daemon=MTA, relay=outgoing.securityfocus.com [205.206.231.27]
>
> Is it a MS process restarting, but the previous MS process wasn't
> stopped properly?

Hmm, could be. Have you tried running MailScanner in debug mode and then
checking the logs?

D

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