Date:  Sat, 1 Jul 2006 16:48:52 -0500
From:  Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet <cobaltfacts (at mark) virtbiz.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:05928] Re: Help! [MailScanner] <defunct>
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <1151790534.23613AA9 (at mark) fd7.dngr.org>
In-Reply-To:  <001c01c69d4f$9ea07190$3701a8c0@lapxp>
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On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 4:46 pm, Arthur Sherman wrote:
>
> 'ps aux' shows this and mail doesn't flow:
> ---
> root      2989  0.0  0.3  9456 3364 ?        Ss   22:27   0:00 
> sendmail:
> accepting connections
> smmsp     2999  0.0  0.2  8196 2804 ?        Ss   22:27   0:00 
> sendmail:
> Queue runner@01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
> root      3171  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    22:30   0:00 
> [MailScanner]
> <defunct>
> root      3172  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    22:30   0:00 
> [MailScanner]
> <defunct>
> root      3173  0.2  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    22:30   0:00 
> [MailScanner]
> <defunct>
> ---
>
> What to do?
>
> Please help!
>
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Arthur Sherman
>
> +972-52-4878851
> CPTeam

First off, you might try restarting MailScanner with
# service MailScanner restart

Check your inbound and delivery queues.

Also watch maillog for clues with
# tail -f /var/log/maillog


Chris Gebhardt
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