mailscanner zombie and large output queue

[Paul Kelly :: Blacknight Solutions]

Krishna wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>         Mailscanner is configured with exim and spamassassin and
> currently it has got some Zombie processes. This is the strace from one
> of the processes.
> 
>        EAGAIN shows that it cannot get lock on a file and ENOTTY relates
> to why mailscanner is looking for a character file.
> 
>        has this it do with the confguration of the mailscanner. I am
> having quite a large output queue which does not get cleared on its own.
> 
>        Has any one experienced this before.

Have you upgraded MailScanner? There were patches in one of the last
releases to stop zombie processes for people who use MailScanner with exim.

Paul


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