[Reply to message from "Charles Cazabon" on Friday 11 Jun 2004 11:53 pm]
> > I have qmail-scanner installed. Qmail-queue here is acutally the > > qmail-scanner script. Why are these processes multiplying? > > > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > > qscand 7519 0.0 0.0 1492 396 ? S 05:49 0:00 > > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -h -f qscand 7520 0.0 0.2 7904 5576 ? > > S 05:49 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/suidperl -T /dev/fd/3/bin/qmail-queue > > qscand 7557 0.0 0.0 1492 396 ? S 05:49 0:00 \_ > > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -h -f qscand 7558 0.0 0.2 7904 5576 ? > > S 05:49 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/suidperl -T > > /dev/fd/3/bin/qmail-queue > > [...] > > Well, you didn't actually include any useful information for diagnosing > your problem, but I'll take a wild guess: I can actually send an receive mails from this problematic installation. What information can I send that would be useful for diagnosing the problem? > 1) You're using the QMAILQUEUE patch, or have renamed > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue and installed a wrapper as > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue. # ls -l *queue* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 2 07:15 qmail-queue -> qmail-scanner-queue.pl* -rws--x--x 1 qmailq qmail 13976 Jan 1 23:09 qmail-queue-ORIG* -rwsr-xr-x 1 qscand qscand 100788 Apr 2 07:01 qmail-scanner-queue.pl* > 2) Your wrapper or QMAILQUEUE is set to call a Perl program as a mail > filter of some type (virus scanner, spam filter, etc). # cat /etc/tcprules.d/qmail-smtp 127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="",QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl" 10.:deny :allow,QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl" > 3) Your mail filter is invoking qmail-inject to queue the > filtered/processed message. > > 4) (3) causes (2) to be invoked again, instead of directly invoking the > "real" qmail-queue binary. Is there anything awkward about "/dev/fd/3/bin/qmail-queue" ? -Chitta ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
