MailScanner hangs once a day

[Denis Beauchemin]

Sergio García Caso a écrit :
> 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
> .
Sergio,

This last message is all normal.  Because MS doesn't want any potential 
memory leak to harm your system it restarts itself every 4 hours.  See 
the "Restart Every" config value in MailScanner.conf.

Denis

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