4.50.4 restarts the child after each batch?

[Matt Hampton]

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James Gray wrote:

>Just installed 4.49.7 on my production gateways - all is well.  They are 
>behaving as I expected them to.
>  
>
What happens when you run it in Debug mode in the foreground?

>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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