Virus scanning hanging?

[Julian Field]

Gottschalk, David wrote:
>
> 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
>
Virus scanning and dangerous content scanning are different.
>
> 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>
>

Jules

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