MailScanner restarting really often..

Martin Hepworth maxsec at gmail.com
Tue Dec 16 21:05:17 GMT 2008 

2008/12/16 Marcel Blenkers <marcel-ml at irc-addicts.de>:
> Hi there,
>
> i just realized the following.
>
> My MailScanner is restarting quiet often, even if the Restart-Settings is
> set to
>
> Restart Every = 14400
>
> This is just a grep
>
> grep "MailScanner child dying of old age" /var/log/mail
>
> Result:
>
> Dec 15 10:34:50 marcel MailScanner[22296]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 15 11:33:03 marcel MailScanner[23215]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 15 11:33:08 marcel MailScanner[23229]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 15 15:36:26 marcel MailScanner[24966]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 15 15:36:29 marcel MailScanner[24955]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 15 16:37:02 marcel MailScanner[31834]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 15 16:37:03 marcel MailScanner[31826]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 15 20:37:59 marcel MailScanner[1176]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 15 20:46:19 marcel MailScanner[1168]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 16 00:39:46 marcel MailScanner[9634]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 16 00:47:34 marcel MailScanner[9846]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 16 06:36:23 marcel MailScanner[20120]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 16 06:36:28 marcel MailScanner[20128]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 16 08:08:21 marcel MailScanner[23624]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 16 08:08:24 marcel MailScanner[23616]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 16 11:24:32 marcel MailScanner[25341]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 16 11:24:35 marcel MailScanner[25353]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 16 14:44:08 marcel MailScanner[30451]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 16 14:44:08 marcel MailScanner[30463]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 16 15:28:38 marcel MailScanner[4288]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 16 15:28:40 marcel MailScanner[4280]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 16 19:38:36 marcel MailScanner[5757]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 16 19:56:18 marcel MailScanner[5746]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 16 21:30:17 marcel MailScanner[12214]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
> Dec 16 21:30:19 marcel MailScanner[12743]: MailScanner child dying of old
> age
>
>
> Every time with all connections closed and then restarting as if i had
> done a
>
> rcMailScanner restart
>
> Means new filetype-settings etc..
>
> is this the normal behaviour?
>
> Running currently:
>
> Running on
> Linux marcel 2.6.13-15.18-default #1 Tue Oct 2 17:36:20 UTC 2007 i686 i686
> i386 GNU/Linux
> This is SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586)
> This is Perl version 5.008007 (5.8.7)
>
> This is MailScanner version 4.71.10
> Module versions are:
> 1.00    AnyDBM_File
> 1.23    Archive::Zip
> 0.23    bignum
> 1.04    Carp
> 2.012   Compress::Zlib
> 1.119   Convert::BinHex
> 0.17    Convert::TNEF
> 2.121_04        Data::Dumper
> 2.27    Date::Parse
> 1.00    DirHandle
> 1.05    Fcntl
> 2.73    File::Basename
> 2.08    File::Copy
> 2.01    FileHandle
> 1.06    File::Path
> 0.20    File::Temp
> 0.92    Filesys::Df
> 1.35    HTML::Entities
> 3.56    HTML::Parser
> 2.37    HTML::TokeParser
> 1.23    IO
> 1.14    IO::File
> 1.13    IO::Pipe
> 2.03    Mail::Header
> 1.89    Math::BigInt
> 0.22    Math::BigRat
> 3.05    MIME::Base64
> 5.425   MIME::Decoder
> 5.425   MIME::Decoder::UU
> 5.425   MIME::Head
> 5.425   MIME::Parser
> 3.03    MIME::QuotedPrint
> 5.425   MIME::Tools
> 0.11    Net::CIDR
> 1.25    Net::IP
> 0.16    OLE::Storage_Lite
> 1.04    Pod::Escapes
> 3.07    Pod::Simple
> 1.08    POSIX
> 1.19    Scalar::Util
> 1.77    Socket
> 2.18    Storable
> 1.4     Sys::Hostname::Long
> 0.26    Sys::Syslog
> 1.26    Test::Pod
> 0.8     Test::Simple
> 1.9715  Time::HiRes
> 1.02    Time::localtime
>
> Optional module versions are:
> 1.38    Archive::Tar
> 0.23    bignum
> 2.02    Business::ISBN
> 1.14    Business::ISBN::Data
> 1.08    Data::Dump
> 1.817   DB_File
> 1.14    DBD::SQLite
> 1.605   DBI
> 1.10    Digest
> 1.01    Digest::HMAC
> 2.36    Digest::MD5
> 2.11    Digest::SHA1
> 1.00    Encode::Detect
> 0.17003 Error
> 0.23    ExtUtils::CBuilder
> 2.11    ExtUtils::ParseXS
> 2.37    Getopt::Long
> 0.44    Inline
> 1.06    IO::String
> 1.09    IO::Zlib
> 2.21    IP::Country
> 0.21    Mail::ClamAV
> 3.002005        Mail::SpamAssassin
> v2.005  Mail::SPF
> 1.999001        Mail::SPF::Query
> 0.2808  Module::Build
> 0.18    Net::CIDR::Lite
> 0.63    Net::DNS
> v0.003  Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable
> 0.33    Net::LDAP
>  4.004  NetAddr::IP
> 1.80    Parse::RecDescent
> missing SAVI
> 3.13    Test::Harness
> 1.17    Test::Manifest
> 1.95    Text::Balanced
> 1.36    URI
> 0.7203  version
> 0.66    YAML
>
>
>
> Any Help appreciated..
>
>
> Marcel
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Upgrade to latest version of mailScanner. See if that helps. If not
stop mailScanner, then "MailScanner --debug --debug-sa" and look at
the end of output for any clues.

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK

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