4.50.4 restarts the child after each batch? -=SOLVED=-

[James Gray]

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On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:49, James Gray wrote:
> 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

The failure to complete in debug mode with MailWatch enabled should have 
pointed me in the right direction.  Now repeat after me: when installing a 
new tar-ball version COPY THE CUSTOM FUNCTIONS TO THE NEW VERSION!

Once I copied the MailWatch.pm 
from /opt/MailScanner-4.42.9/lib/MailScanner/CustomFunctions to
/opt/MailScanner-4.50.5/lib/MailScanner/CustomFunctions restarted and VOILA!

I'm such a tool.  That'll teach me to leave it so long between upgrades - I 
completely forgot all the bits I needed to copy.  Really makes me 
appreciate the effort Julian puts into the RPM packages.  The CentOS 
gateways and such a breeze to upgrade!!  Thanks Julian :)

Thanks also to Matt Hampton and Raymond Dijkxhoorn who offered suggestions.

Cheers,

James
-- 
<knghtbrd> add a GF2/3, a sizable hard drive, and a 15" flat panel and
           you've got a pretty damned portable machine.
<Coderjoe> a GeForce Two-Thirds?
<knghtbrd> Coderjoe: yes, a GeForce two-thirds, ie, any card from ATI.

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