[Mimedefang] mimedefang lockup - help needed

[Bill Randle]

On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 18:31, David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2003, Bill Randle wrote:
> 
> > discarded or accepted for delivery. Then after a period of time -
> > anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour - mimedefang doesn't startup any
> > new scans, sendmail processes start stacking up until the max limit
> > (currently 50), incoming mail starts temp failing, etc.
> 
> Is the mimedefang process dying?  (not mimedefang-multiplexor, just
> plain-old mimedefang.)  That's the only thing I can think of that
> would cause this.

David,

Thanks for the suggestion.

I've got a script run by cron every two minutes that checks for an
abnormally high number of sendmail processes and restarts mimedefang.
To this I add a "ps -ax|grep mime" and a tail of the mail info file.
The output shows the mimedefang process itself is still around, although
it is sleeping:

there are 49 sendmail processes running
15025 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/bin/mimedefang-multiplexor -p
/var/spool/M
15026 ?        S      0:40 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl
-server
15056 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/bin/mimedefang -P
/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mi
15061 ?        S      0:19 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl
-server
15084 ?        S      0:08 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl
-server
15374 ?        S      0:05 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl
-server
15933 ?        S      0:00 grep mime
May 19 21:05:48 outlaw2 sendmail[15865]: h4K44mGa015865: Milter:
initialization failed, temp failing commands
May 19 21:05:51 outlaw2 sendmail[15864]: h4K44pGa015864: Milter
(mimedefang): to error state
May 19 21:05:51 outlaw2 sendmail[15864]: h4K44pGa015864: Milter
(mimedefang): to error state
May 19 21:05:51 outlaw2 sendmail[15864]: h4K44pGa015864: Milter:
initialization failed, temp failing commands

Any other ideas?

	-Bill