MailScanner stuck in endless loop

[Mikael Syska]

Hi,

Why is that endless ?

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Diego <routerlinux at yahoo.es> wrote:
> root at mail:~# tail -f /var/log/mail.log
> Oct  4 23:14:02 mail MailScanner[1629]: Connected to Processing Attempts
> Database
> Oct  4 23:14:02 mail MailScanner[1629]: Found 0 messages in the Processing
> Attempts Database
> Oct  4 23:14:02 mail MailScanner[1629]: Using locktype = flock
> Oct  4 23:14:07 mail MailScanner[1630]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.79.11 starting...
> Oct  4 23:14:07 mail MailScanner[1630]: Reading configuration file
> /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
> Oct  4 23:14:07 mail MailScanner[1630]: Read 858 hostnames from the phishing
> whitelist
> Oct  4 23:14:07 mail MailScanner[1630]: Read 5497 hostnames from the
> phishing blacklists
> Oct  4 23:14:07 mail MailScanner[1630]: Connected to Processing Attempts
> Database
> Oct  4 23:14:07 mail MailScanner[1630]: Found 0 messages in the Processing
> Attempts Database
> Oct  4 23:14:07 mail MailScanner[1630]: Using locktype = flock
> Oct  4 23:14:12 mail MailScanner[1632]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.79.11 starting...
> Oct  4 23:14:12 mail MailScanner[1632]: Reading configuration file
> /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
> Oct  4 23:14:12 mail MailScanner[1632]: Read 858 hostnames from the phishing
> whitelist
> Oct  4 23:14:12 mail MailScanner[1632]: Read 5497 hostnames from the
> phishing blacklists
> Oct  4 23:14:12 mail MailScanner[1632]: Connected to Processing Attempts
> Database
> Oct  4 23:14:12 mail MailScanner[1632]: Found 0 messages in the Processing
> Attempts Database
> Oct  4 23:14:12 mail MailScanner[1632]: Using locktype = flock

Its 3 different pids(so probably 3 children here), and its only the
last 20 lines ... does it do like this all the time ? Show some more
logs please.

What are the number of children set to in the MailScanner.conf file ?

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