MailScanner on boot

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Yes,
I am running MailScanner-mrtg (the most current stable version
0.10.00-1).  I have gone to /etc/cron.d on my CentOS 4.1 system, and
commented out all lines in:

mailscanner-mrtg.crond
mrtg

--time lapse while doing some research---

Looking in /etc/MailScanner/mailscanner-mrtg...I found this:

# MAILSCANNER SETTINGS
# --------------------

# We can restart MailScanner if the number of MailScanner processes
# goes below this number. Change to 0 if you don't want us to restart.
Restart Threshhold = 1

# The script to run to restart MailScanner
Restart MailScanner = /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner restart

# MailScanner lock file
# This file is created by the MailScanner init script when MailScanner is
# stopped. MSMRTG will look for this file and if it exists will not
# attempt to restart MailScanner
MailScanner Off File = /var/lock/subsys/MailScanner.off

---------------------------

The part that I recognized right away was the Restart Threshold,
because that is what the /var/log/messages keeps saying.  Now, I can
see how, if I change this to 0, then my problem will more than likely
go away (something I will try after this email is sent).  Of course,
there are the two following commands that should already be working,
and from what I can gather, they are working just fine until I reboot.
 It is the rebooting that gets me in trouble.  The
/var/lock/subsys/MailScanner.off is no longer there when the system
reboots, and this allows mailscanner-mrtg to use the 'Restart
Threshold.'  So since this is the case, I guess what I need to do is
move everything back that I have changed, and give it a try.  Now,
earlier, there was a post to this topic, that said mailscanner-mrtg
0.10.00-1 was supposed to resolve this problem.  Is the problem
resolved or is it my system that is not working properly?

On 10/10/05, Alex Neuman van der Hans <alex at nkpanama.com> wrote:
> 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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> You're running something else, in this case, "mailscanner-mrtg", which
> is doing the deleting/restarting, probably.
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