Excess number of children

[Martin Hepworth]

could be related the Perl issues as you're runnning old Mailscanner on a
newer Perl distro and there's been lots of small fixed in MS to fix the
taint issues that modern perl highlights.

have you tried running latest MailScanner as 4.79 is quite old

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK


On 23 May 2012 10:31, Johan <johan at oxyl.net> wrote:

> I have previously used mailscanner on Ubuntu with out any problems on a
> handful computers. I have been using version 4.79.11 with perl 5.12.4.
>
> Now I have upgraded one computer to Ubuntu 12.04 and I have had several
> small problems but the major problem is that mailscanner creates and
> leaves a large number of children (reported på mailwatch). After a while
> I must reboot the computer to get the system functioning again.
>
> Im using the same config-file as before. Max number of children has been
> and still is set to 1 in the config-file.
>
> Any idea about how to solve the problem?
>
> /Johan Pålsson
>
> johan at system-b:~$ sudo MailScanner -v
> Using a hash as a reference is deprecated at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line
> 590.
> Running on
> Linux system-b 2.6.32-22-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 3 22:02:19 UTC
> 2010 i686                                                    athlon i386
> GNU/Linux
> This is Perl version 5.014002 (5.14.2)
>
> This is MailScanner version 4.79.11
> Module versions are:
> 1.00    AnyDBM_File
> 1.30    Archive::Zip
> 0.27    bignum
> 1.20    Carp
> 2.048   Compress::Zlib
> 1.119   Convert::BinHex
> 0.17    Convert::TNEF
> 2.130_02        Data::Dumper
> 2.30    Date::Parse
> 1.04    DirHandle
> 1.11    Fcntl
> 2.82    File::Basename
> 2.21    File::Copy
> 2.02    FileHandle
> 2.08_01 File::Path
> 0.22    File::Temp
> 0.92    Filesys::Df
> 3.69    HTML::Entities
> 3.69    HTML::Parser
> 3.69    HTML::TokeParser
> 1.25_04 IO
> 1.15    IO::File
> 1.14    IO::Pipe
> 2.08    Mail::Header
> 1.994   Math::BigInt
> 0.2602  Math::BigRat
> 3.13    MIME::Base64
> 5.502   MIME::Decoder
> 5.502   MIME::Decoder::UU
> 5.502   MIME::Head
> 5.502   MIME::Parser
> 3.13    MIME::QuotedPrint
> 5.502   MIME::Tools
> 0.14    Net::CIDR
> 1.25    Net::IP
> 0.19    OLE::Storage_Lite
> 1.04    Pod::Escapes
> 3.16    Pod::Simple
> 1.24    POSIX
> 1.23    Scalar::Util
> 1.94    Socket
> 2.27    Storable
> 1.4     Sys::Hostname::Long
> 0.29    Sys::Syslog
> missing Test::Pod
> 0.98    Test::Simple
> 1.972101        Time::HiRes
> 1.02    Time::localtime
>
> Optional module versions are:
> 1.76    Archive::Tar
> 0.27    bignum
> missing Business::ISBN
> missing Business::ISBN::Data
> missing Data::Dump
> 1.821   DB_File
> 1.35    DBD::SQLite
> 1.616   DBI
> 1.16    Digest
> 1.03    Digest::HMAC
> 2.51    Digest::MD5
> 2.13    Digest::SHA1
> missing Encode::Detect
> 0.17010 Error
> 0.280203        ExtUtils::CBuilder
> 2.2210  ExtUtils::ParseXS
> 2.38    Getopt::Long
> missing Inline
> 1.08    IO::String
> 1.10    IO::Zlib
> missing IP::Country
> missing Mail::ClamAV
> 3.003002        Mail::SpamAssassin
> missing Mail::SPF
> missing Mail::SPF::Query
> 0.38    Module::Build
> missing Net::CIDR::Lite
> 0.66    Net::DNS
> missing Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable
> missing Net::LDAP
>  4.058  NetAddr::IP
> missing Parse::RecDescent
> missing SAVI
> 3.23    Test::Harness
> missing Test::Manifest
> 2.02    Text::Balanced
> 1.59    URI
> 0.88    version
> missing YAML
>
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