MailScanner: extracting attachments

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Mar 14 17:03:48 GMT 2008


He wanted an lsof from the "extracting attachments" processes, not just 
a ps listing.

Devon Harding wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Rick Cooper <rcooper at dwford.com 
> <mailto:rcooper at dwford.com>> wrote:
>
>     you are the third our fourth unresolved instance of this problem,
>     I have yet to see anyone post an lsof output of the hung process
>     to see if it's doing something funny disk wise when this is
>     happening. Could you list the output of the hung process?It seems
>     to me this happend to me once when I updated MailTools with the
>     latestes rather than the one supplied with MailScanner, and when I
>     reinstalled the MailScanner version all was fine, I could be wrong
>     though it's been a while back but I am sure it had to do with a
>     perl module that Jules patched/provides.
>      
>     Rick
>
>
>
> Here is my 'ps aux'  What is the diff between the two versions?
>
> root      2043  0.0  0.0   1528   404 tty6     Ss+  03:17   0:00 
> /sbin/mingetty tty6
> root     16229  0.0  0.4   7940  2444 ?        Ss   11:09   0:01 sshd: 
> root at pts/0
> root     16231  0.0  0.2   4728  1460 pts/0    Ss   11:09   0:00 -bash
> root     24168  0.0  0.5   8876  2936 ?        Ss   12:31   0:00 
> sendmail: accepting connections                            
> smmsp    24172  0.0  0.3   7308  1680 ?        Ss   12:31   0:00 
> sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
> root     24176  0.0  0.3   7308  1756 ?        Ss   12:31   0:00 
> sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/mqueue      
> root     24193  0.0  3.7  25712 19220 ?        Ss   12:31   0:00 
> MailScanner: master waiting for children, sleeping
> root     24194 38.1 16.8 113952 87000 ?        R    12:31   3:41 
> MailScanner: extracting attachments
> root     24199  0.0  4.1  28148 21520 ?        S    12:31   0:00 
> MailWatch SQL
> root     24205  0.0  0.1   4264   728 ?        S    12:31   0:00 awk 
> {printf "%s %s\n", strftime("%T"), $0}
> root     24209 29.3 16.8 114172 87024 ?        R    12:31   2:48 
> MailScanner: extracting attachments
> root     24217  0.0  0.1   4264   732 ?        S    12:31   0:00 awk 
> {printf "%s %s\n", strftime("%T"), $0}
> root     24225 30.6 16.8 113800 86716 ?        R    12:31   2:54 
> MailScanner: extracting attachments
> root     24233  0.0  0.1   4268   736 ?        S    12:31   0:00 awk 
> {printf "%s %s\n", strftime("%T"), $0}
> root     24505  1.0  0.1   4288   836 pts/0    R+   12:41   0:00 ps aux
> root     31242  0.0  0.4   7940  2456 ?        Ss   08:45   0:01 sshd: 
> root at pts/2
> root     31244  0.0  0.2   4732  1480 pts/2    Ss+  08:45   0:00 -bash
> root     31566  0.0  0.4   7800  2428 ?        Ss   08:52   0:00 sshd: 
> root at pts/3
> root     31568  0.0  0.2   4732  1460 pts/3    Ss+  08:52   0:00 -bash

Jules

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