Virus scanning hanging?

Gottschalk, David dgottsc at emory.edu
Thu Sep 13 16:50:26 IST 2007


It appears that some of the MailScanner processes on one of my boxes are hanging on Virus scanning.

ps -ef | grep -I mailscanner | grep dangerous

root      4259  4139 62 10:56 ?        00:29:07 MailScanner: dangerous content scanning
root      4212  4139 61 10:56 ?        00:28:35 MailScanner: dangerous content scanning
root      4140  4139 62 10:56 ?        00:29:03 MailScanner: dangerous content scanning



Sep 13 10:56:06 mr5 MailScanner[4140]: MCP Checks: Starting
Sep 13 10:56:09 mr5 MailScanner[4140]: MCP Checks completed at 789370 bytes per second
Sep 13 10:56:10 mr5 MailScanner[4140]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting


sudo strace -p 4140
Process 4140 attached - interrupt to quit


Process 4140 detached

I'm running clamav 0.91.1/4264/Thu Sep 13 02:06:05 2007and bitdefender BDC/Linux-Console v7.0 (build 2492) (i386) (Dec 11 2003 13:24:00).

Other mail is flowing fine. Any ideas?

Any ideas?


David Gottschalk
UTS Infrastructure Technology Services
david.gottschalk at emory.edu<mailto:david.gottschalk at emory.edu>


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