Its not ny day for mailscanner

Ugo Bellavance ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM
Mon Nov 7 21:59:45 GMT 2005


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Stephen Swaney wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>> Behalf Of Rob
>> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 3:45 PM
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Its not ny day for mailscanner
>>
>> First off thanks to all for helping me out in the last few days on this
>> list i really appreciate it...
>>
>> No i have another strange problem...
>>
>> MS seems to silently die, and mail keeps coming in but not being
>> delivered....
>>
>> Nothing in the logs other than the below...
>>
>> Nov  7 07:19:38 stewy MailScanner[22057]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>> version 4.41.3 starting...
>> Nov  7 08:20:29 stewy MailScanner[32272]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>> version 4.41.3 starting...
>> Nov  7 09:22:31 stewy MailScanner[12405]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>> version 4.41.3 starting...
>> Nov  7 10:01:06 stewy MailScanner[22796]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>> version 4.41.3 starting...
>> Nov  7 11:18:19 stewy MailScanner[8095]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>> version 4.41.3 starting...
>> Nov  7 11:27:49 stewy MailScanner[10785]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>> version 4.41.3 starting...
>> Nov  7 11:28:28 stewy MailScanner[10982]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>> version 4.41.3 starting...
>> Nov  7 12:31:27 stewy MailScanner[28341]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>> version 4.41.3 starting...
>> Nov  7 12:55:14 stewy MailScanner[2339]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>> version 4.41.3 starting...
>> Nov  7 13:20:20 stewy MailScanner[9208]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>> version 4.41.3 starting...
>> Nov  7 14:20:12 stewy MailScanner[23010]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>> version 4.41.3 starting...
>> Nov  7 14:26:12 stewy MailScanner[24665]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>> version 4.41.3 starting...
>> Nov  7 15:23:26 stewy MailScanner[6529]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>> version 4.41.3 starting...
>> Nov  7 15:35:33 stewy MailScanner[8147]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>> version 4.41.3 starting...
>>
>> When i run the /usr/sbin/check_mailscaner it says
>>
>> stewy:/var/log# /usr/sbin/check_mailscanner
>> MailScanner running with pid 8146 8147
>>
>>
>> But when i watch the logs via tail -f i do not see any Mailscanner
>> activity until i restart by /etc/init.d/mailscanner restart
>>
>> I am using MS 4.41.3-2 with postfix on debian 3.1
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Rob...
>> http://www.stupidguytalk.org
> 
> To make the error a little noisier, in MailScanner.conf please set:
> 
> 	Debug = no
> 	Debug SpamAssassin = no
> 
> Then stop and then start MailScanner from the command line. Watch the screen
> output. The reason for MailScanner dying should appear.
> 
> Steve
> 
> Stephen Swaney
> Fort Systems Ltd.
> stephen.swaney at fsl.com
> www.fsl.com
> 

I'd say yes, Steve, not no :)

  	Debug = yes
  	Debug SpamAssassin = yes

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