ms-cron hourly cron job

[Wolfgang Baudler]

> On 10/27/2016 05:13 AM, Wolfgang Baudler wrote:
>>
>> ms_cron_check=1
>> ms_cron_msg_alert=0
> ...
>> It is the "/usr/sbin/ms-cron HOURLY" job in /etc/cron.hourly that is
>> producing the output:
>> $ /usr/sbin/ms-cron HOURLY
>>
>>
>> $
>
> But /usr/sbin/ms-cron HOURLY produces no output on it's own. With your
> settings, it only runs /usr/sbin/ms-check and any output produced comes
> from that.
>
> In my experience /usr/sbin/ms-check only produces that output when it
> thinks MailScanner is not running and starts it.
>
> Also see Michael Young's posts at
> <http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2016-October/103985.html>
> and
> <http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2016-October/103980.html>
>

Yes, looks like it hourly restarts. Still, why should it print 2 empty
lines when it restarts?

Will this restart problem be fixed in a future minor release?

Wolfgang