Stopping?

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 14:16 +1100, Laurent Dinclaux wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Something strange happens. Sometimes I notice that mail are no more 
> scanned by mailscanner so I go on my server & notice mailscanner is 
> running but effectively does not scan emails anymore. Have a look at my 
> "hudge" logs and don't notice anything strange so i issue some commands:
> 
> # service sendmail stop
> Arrêt de sendmail : [ OK ]
> Arrêt de sm-client : [FAILED]
> # /etc/init.d/MailScanner restart
> Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
> MailScanner: [ OK ]
> incoming sendmail: [ OK ]
> outgoing sendmail: [ OK ]
> Starting MailScanner daemons:
> incoming sendmail: [ OK ]
> outgoing sendmail: [ OK ]
> MailScanner: [ OK ]
> 
> And everything is back up ;)
> 
> This happens about once a week. I am running centos 4.2 updated.
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try running...

chkconfig sendmail off
chkconfig MailScanner on

I'm guessing that things get messed up when the logs rotate weekly

Craig