MailScanner starting new parent processes

[Chris Labatt-Simon]

Hi All -

 

I just went through a painful upgrade of an Ubuntu server from 10.04 to
14.04. In the process, MailScanner was removed and I had to re-install it. I
copied over my old etc settings. My old version was 4.79.11. My new version
is 4.84.6.

 

It seems as if MailScanner can't tell whether it's already running. I have
"Restart Every" set to 7200. Every time the time passes, a new primary
process of MailScanner starts. Over the period of a day, I'll have a large
number of parent processes running.

 

Help?

 

If this helps at all. the mailscanner script in /etc/init.d uses
start-stop-daemon to start and stop the MailScanner process. It would start
fine, but it wouldn't stop as it didn't recognize the MailScanner name in
the process list. I had to modify the script to use the PID file to stop the
processes.

 

Here's the ps -edf output after the first 7200 seconds:

 

root     11829     1  0 12:31 ?        00:00:00 MailScanner: master waiting
for children, sleeping

root     11830 11829  0 12:31 ?        00:00:11 MailScanner: waiting for
messages

root     11839 11829  0 12:31 ?        00:00:13 MailScanner: waiting for
messages

root     11857 11829  0 12:32 ?        00:00:14 MailScanner: waiting for
messages

root     11863 11829  0 12:32 ?        00:00:14 MailScanner: waiting for
messages

root     11871 11829  0 12:32 ?        00:00:14 MailScanner: waiting for
messages

root     14269     1  0 13:17 ?        00:00:00 MailScanner: master waiting
for children, sleeping

root     14270 14269  0 13:17 ?        00:00:07 MailScanner: waiting for
messages

root     14278 14269  0 13:17 ?        00:00:07 MailScanner: waiting for
messages

root     14284 14269  0 13:17 ?        00:00:10 MailScanner: waiting for
messages

root     14290 14269  0 13:17 ?        00:00:07 MailScanner: waiting for
messages

root     14298 14269  0 13:17 ?        00:00:08 MailScanner: waiting for
messages

 

Thanks!

 

Chris

 

 

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