MailScanner on boot

[Julian Field]

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Have you got MailScanner-MRTG installed? I think that is what generates 
this log message. It isn't created by MailScanner itself. I think new 
versions of MailScanner-MRTG are better behaved in this respect.

Information Services wrote:

>I ran service MailScanner stop, and made sure the MailScanner.off was
>in /var/lock/subsys/, and then rebooted.  Upon rebooting, and checking
>the /var/lock/subsys/ directory, the MailScanner.off was no longer
>there.  And then checking the /var/log/maillog I see this:
>
>Oct 10 08:35:03 wks-lin8 MailScanner-MRTG[3015]: Number of MailScanner
>processes below threshold, restarting MailScanner
>
>My question now is....is the MailScanner.off supposed to be there upon a reboot?
>
>On 10/7/05, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Information Services spake the following on 10/7/2005 12:52 PM:
>>    
>>
>>>You were right...MailScanner-mrtg looks like it is causing the
>>>problem...here is what I just got from my log
>>>
>>>Oct  7 14:45:03 wks-lin8 MailScanner-MRTG[2873]: Number of MailScanner
>>>processes below threshold, restarting MailScanner
>>>
>>>I guess I don't understand how MailScanner-MRTG is restarting when I
>>>commented out all the lines in cron.d files.
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>That was supposed to be fixed in 0.10.00-1.
>>I think it looks for the same file that MailScanner generates when you
>>run service MailScanner stop.
>>/var/lock/subsys/MailScanner.off
>>To quote the changelog "Now will not restart MailScanner if MailScanner
>>was shut down using its init script."
>>So if you stop MailScanner from it's init script, and then reboot, does
>>it still restart?
>>You might need to restore some of the changes you have made.
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