4.49.7-1 process name feature keeps adding processes

[Scott Silva]

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Michael Masse spake the following on 1/6/2006 2:20 PM:
> Julian Field wrote:
> 
>> Try killing mailscanner-mrtg, just to prove that it's not guilty of
>> generating them...
>>
> It appears to be a problem with check_MailScanner which I have running
> once an hour.    It can't seem to detect that MailScanner is running, so
> it starts up new processes.    If I do a ps axww the relavant lines are:
> 
> 15006 ?        S      0:00 MailScanner: master waiting for children,
> sleeping                                         15007 ?        S     
> 0:02 MailScanner: waiting for
> messages                                                          15068
> ?        S      0:02 MailScanner: waiting for
> messages                                                          15187
> ?        S      0:02 MailScanner: waiting for
> messages                                                          15234
> ?        S      0:02 MailScanner: waiting for
> messages                                                          15258
> ?        S      0:01 MailScanner: waiting for messages
> 
> 
> and I'm running
> check_MailScanner version 1.13.2.8 dated 2003/07/29
> 
> Is there a newer version that the rpm install isn't updating for some
> reason?
> 
> Mike
> 
Mine has no version info, but is dated 1/1/2006.
Maybe yours is locked in some way (immutable bit set?), and the rpm
install can't get it.


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