MailScanner hangs once a day

[Jeff A. Earickson]

I would suggest looking at the cron logs (/var/cron/log or similar)
to see if some cron job launches at that time and gets underfoot.
I happen to run /opt/MailScanner/bin/update_phishing_sites every day
at 9:22, which jogged my memory on this.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Sergio García Caso wrote:

> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:20:05 +0200
> From: Sergio García Caso <sergiogc at treelogic.com>
> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: MailScanner hangs once a day
> 
> Hello,
>
> I have installed MailScanner 4.54.6 with Postfix 2.3, SpamAssasin 3.1.3 and 
> ClamAV 0.88.4 in a Mail Gateway with Ubuntu 5.10.
> The problem is that MailScanner hangs once a day (always at 09.30-10.00) so I 
> have to restart it  (/etc/init.d/mailscanner restart).
> I get the following info in the log ('mail.info'):
>
> ...
> Aug 24 09:34:48 localhost postfix/qmgr[15569]: 31C882B46B2: 
> from=<tl.support at thomson.com>, size=2840, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Aug 24 09:34:48 localhost postfix/qmgr[15569]: EDDB92B46B4: 
> from=<maildispatcher at wotrant.com>, size=10478, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Aug 24 09:34:48 localhost MailScanner[3295]: Uninfected: Delivered 4 messages
> Aug 24 09:34:48 localhost MailScanner[3295]: Virus Processing completed at 
> 3609875 bytes per second
> Aug 24 09:34:48 localhost MailScanner[3295]: Disinfection completed at 
> 932113606 bytes per second
> Aug 24 09:34:48 localhost MailScanner[3295]: Batch completed at 1538 bytes 
> per second (168675 / 109)
> Aug 24 09:34:48 localhost MailScanner[3295]: Batch (30 messages) processed in 
> 109.62 seconds
> Aug 24 09:34:48 localhost MailScanner[3295]: MailScanner child dying of old 
> age
> ...
>
> Can anybody help me?
> Thanks.
>
>
> **
>
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