MailScanner hangs once a day

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Do you have a line like this in your cronjob ? :-

3,23,43 * * * * /opt/MailScanner/bin/check_mailscanner

as this will check the processes and restart if not running.

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 07:22:44 -0400 (EDT), "Jeff A. Earickson" <jaearick at colby.edu> wrote:
> 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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