Help! [MailScanner] <defunct>

[Arthur Sherman]

After setting debug on:
---
[root at ns1 mail]# service MailScanner start
Starting MailScanner daemons:
         incoming sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
         outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
         MailScanner:       In Debugging mode, not forking...
no connection to syslog available
        - _PATH_LOG not available in syslog.h at
/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Log.pm line 152
                                                           [  OK  ]
---

/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Log.pm has this on 152:

	Sys::Syslog::syslog($level, $_) if $_ ne "";

I don't see it starting in maillog.
All I see is mata getting the mail, then it disapears somewhere.


Best,

--
Arthur Sherman

+972-52-4878851
CPTeam  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Dhawal Doshy
> Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 10:23 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Help! [MailScanner] <defunct>
> 
> Arthur Sherman wrote:
> > 'ps aux' shows this and mail doesn't flow:
> > ---
> > root      2989  0.0  0.3  9456 3364 ?        Ss   22:27   
> 0:00 sendmail:
> > accepting connections
> > smmsp     2999  0.0  0.2  8196 2804 ?        Ss   22:27   
> 0:00 sendmail:
> > Queue runner at 01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
> > root      3171  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    22:30   
> 0:00 [MailScanner]
> > <defunct>
> > root      3172  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    22:30   
> 0:00 [MailScanner]
> > <defunct>
> > root      3173  0.2  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    22:30   
> 0:00 [MailScanner]
> > <defunct>
> > ---
> 
> This is the intended behavio(u)r for MailScanner when 
> restarting (every 
> 4 hours by default).. see the "Restart Every" parameter in 
> MailScanner.conf
> 
> But, if you notice this all the time, then it could be the dreaded 
> 'tnef' error..
> 
> You do not mention version of MS and MTA.. please post more details.
> 
> - dhawal
> 
> > What to do?
> > 
> > Please help!
> > 
> > 
> > Best,
> > 
> > --
> > Arthur Sherman
> > 
> > +972-52-4878851
> > CPTeam 
> > 
> 
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