WARNING to Mac OSX Users

[Julian Field]

Fixed. Will be in the next release.

James Gray wrote:
> The bin/check_mailscanner script needs to modified BEFORE you activate (cron 
> etc) it.
>
> Add the following to the check_mailscanner script as the last "elseif" 
> before the final "else" at the top of the file:
>
> elif $UNAME | $FGREP "Darwin" >/dev/null ; then # ie Mac OSX
>     pid=`$PS -axww |
>          $EGREP '[ ]('$msbindir/$process')|'$process'[:]' |
>          $AWK '{print $1}'`
>
> Otherwise, the check_mailscanner script will start a new MailScanner process 
> (parent+children) every time it is run from cron.
>
> Case study: on my OSX server (10.4.6) with 2GB of RAM, running the unpatched 
> check_mailscanner script every 15 minutes rendered it useless in 2 hours.  
> RAM was 100% used, all swap consumed and the system practically froze.
>
> Nasty.  All is good now that the code above was added to detect the Darwin 
> kernel (Mac OSX) :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
>   

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