log message MailScanner: waiting for children to die

Martin.Hepworth martinh at solidstatelogic.com
Wed May 2 09:27:38 IST 2007


Hi

You say - 'old' configuration. Did you run the upgrade scripts to make
sure new settings get inserted etc or just copy MailScanner.conf across?

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Martin Hepworth
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Götz Reinicke
> Sent: 02 May 2007 07:05
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: log message MailScanner: waiting for children to die
>
> Hi,
>
> we recently upgraded our mailserver from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 to
> RHEL 5. We use the latest release of mailscanner and sendmail-8.13.8.
>
> Everything is up and running very good, beside I do get the following
> message lots of time:
>
> MailScanner: waiting for children to die: Process did not exit
cleanly,
> returned 255 with signal 0
>
> I'm using our "old" configuration from RHEL4 which worked without the
> message for a couple off years.
>
> Any ideas or tips?
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Götz Reinicke
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