[cobalt-users] [RAQ-ALL] MailScanner...

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Speaking of *cuss* MailScanner *cuss*..

I've found MailScanner has been quite retarded at times.. I hope retarded is
a "technical" enough term.. :)

For example, continuously mailscanner, or something other than mailscanner?
stops the outgoing sendmail process:

[root share]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail status
Checking MailScanner daemons:
         MailScanner:       ok
         incoming sendmail: ok
         outgoing sendmail: ERROR!

Note: We "merged" the sendmail and MailScanner scripts into the sendmail
script as we thought this may have been related to "active monitor" trying
to restart sendmail.. and still to no avail..

Perhaps the line in the MailScanner.conf that kills those pesky run-away
processes has something to do with this?

"
# To avoid resource leaks, re-start periodically
Restart Every = 14400
"

In the mean time we have installed a cron.daily script to grep the status of
the outgoing sendmail and if [ "$pid" = "" ]; then /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail
startout

This seems to be helping, but sometimes (semi-monthly) we get relaying-is
denied errors, and once we do a full ./sendmail restart the problem goes
away..

Very "retarded".. no?


-- Zeke

BlackSun Web Hosting
http://www.blacksun.ca


P.S.. If anyone has the CCE source code.. I'll buy you dinner, maybe more.

:P