"Can't set UID 8" errors

Michael St. Laurent mikes at hartwellcorp.com
Fri May 15 18:35:59 IST 2009


> > I'm having trouble with MailScanner halting its message processing
> > periodically.  When this happens and the hourly check to make sure
> it's
> > still running takes place I get the following:
> >
> > /etc/cron.hourly/check_MailScanner:
> >
> > Starting MailScanner...Can't set UID 8 at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line
> > 1479.
> >  Failed.
> >
> >
> > This was happening with version 4.76.12-1 and also with version
> > 4.76.25-1 after I upgraded to see if that would help (it has not).
> 
> I am also seeing entries such as the following in the
/var/log/messages
> file:
> 
> May 15 06:49:38 hcfw1 MailScanner: Process did not exit cleanly,
> returned 11 with signal 0

Am I looking at the same issue as the dead child process thread?

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