Date:  Sun, 02 Jul 2006 01:56:52 +0200
From:  Arthur Sherman <arturs (at mark) netvision.net.il>
Subject:  [coba-e:05932] Re: Help! [MailScanner] <defunct>
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <003501c69d6a$0644bc60$3701a8c0@lapxp>
In-Reply-To:  <200607020011.40604.bq (at mark) solarspeed.net>
X-Mail-Count: 05932

This didn't help, nor re-installing it to latest beta as suggested on MS
list.
This is something in syslog.h, but I am not that strong to solve it myself.


Best,

--
Arthur Sherman

+972-52-4878851
CPTeam  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Stauber [mailto:bq (at mark) solarspeed.net] 
> Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 12:12 AM
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:05929] Re: Help! [MailScanner] <defunct>
> 
> Hi Arthur,
> 
> > '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!
> 
> killall -9 MailScanner
> (To kill off those processes)
> 
> ps axf|grep MailScanner
> (To check if they're still running)
> 
> If you still see MailScanner processes afterwards, kill them 
> manually with ...
> kill -9 <PID> 
> ... where <PID> is the process ID.
> 
> Once each and any MailScanner process has been killed, start 
> MailScanner 
> again.
> 
> -- 
> 
> With best regards,
> 
> Michael Stauber
>