4.50.4 restarts the child after each batch?

[James Gray]

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Just installed 4.49.7 on my production gateways - all is well.  They are 
behaving as I expected them to.

However, I've installed the latest beta (4.50.4 from the tar ball) on my test 
machine (system is an Exim 4.50-8 box running on Debian Sarge, with 
MailWatch) and noticed it now restarts the child after every batch:
...
MailScanner[12542]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 5532 bytes
MailScanner[12542]: MCP Checks completed at 5532 bytes per second
MailScanner[12542]: Spam Checks: Starting
MailScanner[12542]: Message 1EuKE6-0003GA-4z from 82.211.81.173 
(foo at example.com) to mydomain.com is not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-30.253, 
required 5, AWL 0.36, BAYES_00 -2.60, BODY_GAPPY_TEXT 1.92, LISTID_UBUNTU_USR 
-15.00, RCVD_BY_IP 0.07, TO_UBUNTU_LIST -15.00)
MailScanner[12542]: Spam Checks completed at 790 bytes per second
MailScanner[12542]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
MailScanner[12542]: Virus Scanning completed at 1383 bytes per second
MailScanner[12542]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
MailScanner[12542]: Virus Processing completed at 5532 bytes per second
MailScanner[12542]: Disinfection completed at 5532 bytes per second
MailScanner[12542]: Batch completed at 502 bytes per second (5532 / 11)
MailScanner[12555]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.50.4 
starting...
MailScanner[12555]: Read 695 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
MailScanner[12555]: Config: calling custom init function MailWatchLogging
MailScanner[12555]: Caching SpamAssassin results
MailScanner[12555]: Connected to SpamAssassin cache database
MailScanner[12555]: Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist functionality...
MailScanner[12555]: Using locktype = posix
MailScanner[12555]: Creating hardcoded struct_flock subroutine for linux 
(Linux-type)
...

Notice the new PID?  This box only runs a single child process and this 
behaviour is new since 4.50.4 was installed an hour or so ago.

Here's some more diagnostic fru for your reading pleasure:

#uname -a
Linux ninja 2.4.27-2-686 #1 Wed Aug 17 10:34:09 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

#ps -ef | grep MailScanner
109    12267     1  0 12:35 ?    00:00:00 MailScanner: starting child
109    12642 12267  4 12:51 ?    00:00:14 MailScanner: waiting for messages

(109 is a valid UID = Debian-exim...no idea why ps wont show it. Also between 
teh log dump above and the execution of "ps" the child PID changed...again)

# /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner --version
Running on
Linux ninja 2.4.27-2-686 #1 Wed Aug 17 10:34:09 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
This is Perl version 5.008004 (5.8.4)

This is MailScanner version 4.50.4
Module versions are:
1.00	AnyDBM_File
1.14	Archive::Zip
1.02	Carp
1.119 	Convert::BinHex
1.00	DirHandle
1.05	Fcntl
2.72	File::Basename
2.07	File::Copy
2.01	FileHandle
1.06	File::Path
0.16	File::Temp
1.29	HTML::Entities
3.45	HTML::Parser
2.30	HTML::TokeParser
1.21	IO
1.10	IO::File
1.123	IO::Pipe
1.50	Mail::Header
3.05	MIME::Base64
5.417	MIME::Decoder
5.417	MIME::Decoder::UU
5.417	MIME::Head
5.417	MIME::Parser
3.03	MIME::QuotedPrint
5.417	MIME::Tools
0.10	Net::CIDR
1.08	POSIX
1.77	Socket
0.05	Sys::Syslog
1.02	Time::localtime

Optional module versions are:
0.17	Convert::TNEF
1.808	DB_File
1.06	Digest
1.01	Digest::HMAC
2.33	Digest::MD5
2.10	Digest::SHA1
0.44	Inline
0.17	Mail::ClamAV
3.000004	Mail::SpamAssassin
1.997	Mail::SPF::Query
0.15	Net::CIDR::Lite
0.48	Net::DNS
0.32	Net::LDAP
1.94	Parse::RecDescent
missing	SAVI
1.4	Sys::Hostname::Long
2.40	Test::Harness
0.47	Test::Simple
1.95	Text::Balanced
1.35	URI

Thanks for any help.

James
-- 
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