MailScanner children dying and not picking up new mail

[Rob]

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I will try it tomorrow morning as I would have to stop the cronjob and for
today,  for me to keep an eye on it, is too close to days end...

But I will try it tomorrow morning... I will let ya know how it goes...

Thanks..

Rob...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: MailScanner children dying and not picking up new mail


> Please can you try the attached patch for /usr/sbin/MailScanner. It
> should apply successfully to most recent versions, as this file changes
> pretty rarely.
>
> Please let me know how you get on, if my hunch is correct then it should
> help.
>
> Brent Emerson wrote:
>
>>I'm seeing the same behavior that was reported by Nigel Kennedy in the
>>thread "MailScanner occasionally not picking up from the hold queue" and
>>which is detailed in Debian bug #305239
>>(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=305239): An MS child
>>dies of old age, another child is spawned, and the new process never picks
>>up any messages from the hold queue.  Eventually, all my MS children are
>>in state "sleeping" and all incoming mail accumulates in the hold queue.
>>A stop/start restores things to normal.  The problem almost always seems
>>to occur exactly 4 hours after my automated 23:10 MS restart (3:10am),
>>when system load is low.
>>
>>My system: FreeBSD 4.9, Postfix 2.2.2, MailScanner 4.41.3, SpamAssassin
>>3.0.3, ClamAV 0.85.  Most or all of my relevant perl modules are the
>>latest versions, which in some cases may be later than what Julian
>>recommends.
>>
>>Has there been a resolution/diagnosis of this yet?  Any clues?  Any debug
>>work I can do?
>>
>>Brent Emerson
>>
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