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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi All –<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Help?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here’s the ps –edf output after the first 7200 seconds:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>root 11829 1 0 12:31 ? 00:00:00 MailScanner: master waiting for children, sleeping<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>root 11830 11829 0 12:31 ? 00:00:11 MailScanner: waiting for messages<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>root 11839 11829 0 12:31 ? 00:00:13 MailScanner: waiting for messages<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>root 11857 11829 0 12:32 ? 00:00:14 MailScanner: waiting for messages<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>root 11863 11829 0 12:32 ? 00:00:14 MailScanner: waiting for messages<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>root 11871 11829 0 12:32 ? 00:00:14 MailScanner: waiting for messages<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>root 14269 1 0 13:17 ? 00:00:00 MailScanner: master waiting for children, sleeping<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>root 14270 14269 0 13:17 ? 00:00:07 MailScanner: waiting for messages<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>root 14278 14269 0 13:17 ? 00:00:07 MailScanner: waiting for messages<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>root 14284 14269 0 13:17 ? 00:00:10 MailScanner: waiting for messages<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>root 14290 14269 0 13:17 ? 00:00:07 MailScanner: waiting for messages<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>root 14298 14269 0 13:17 ? 00:00:08 MailScanner: waiting for messages<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chris<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>