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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I seem to have a problem on one of my servers with the
check_MailScanner hourly job. If MailScanner is stopped it honors the lock
MailScanner.off and the cron job says Not Restarting. However, if I MailScanner
is running I get Starting MailScanner… Done in the cron notice.
Resultant problem is that I end up with hundreds of MailScanner processes (1
master waiting for children, and 5 waiting for messages – every hour).
So, it appears it isn’t seeing that MailScanner is already running and
starts again. And MailScanner stop only stops the group associated with
the .pid file, so I end up having to manually kill the orphaned processes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I am running:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Linux Red Hat Enterprise AS release 4 (Nahant Update 8)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>MailScanner 4.78.17<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>What could be wrong and what can I check? I have had
to take it out of the cron.hourly directory, but I can recreate the issue by
running the check_MailScanner manually.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks in Advance!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Diane<o:p></o:p></p>
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