mailscanner zombie and large output queue

[Krishna]

Hi,

MailScanner Version Number = 4.43.8

Not yet


Krishna



On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 12:00 +0100, Paul Kelly :: Blacknight Solutions
wrote:

> 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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