Yeah, same problem over here. I have several machines installed under Debian/Testing and all of them show the same symptoms.
Here are some of the last few lines from the syslog: Apr 20 00:08:34 mordor MailScanner[4312]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 1560 bytes Apr 20 00:08:40 mordor MailScanner[4312]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting Apr 20 00:08:43 mordor MailScanner[4312]: Requeue: D2768617F.92D89 to DF99664B8 Apr 20 00:08:43 mordor MailScanner[4312]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages Apr 20 00:08:43 mordor MailScanner[4312]: MailScanner child dying of old age Apr 20 00:08:45 mordor MailScanner[5931]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.40.11 starting... Apr 20 00:08:46 mordor MailScanner[5931]: Read 108 hostnames from the phishing whitelist Apr 20 00:08:48 mordor MailScanner[5931]: Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist functionality... Apr 20 00:08:58 mordor MailScanner[5931]: ClamAV scanner using unrar command /usr/bin/unrar Apr 20 00:08:58 mordor MailScanner[5931]: Using locktype = flock Apr 20 01:00:01 mordor /USR/SBIN/CRON[6066]: (root) CMD ([ -f $LOCKFILE ] && exit 0; run_mailscanner=0; run_nice=0; if [ -f /etc/default/mailscanner ]; then . /etc/default/mailscanner; fi; [ $run_mailscanner = 0 ] && exit 0; trap "rm -f $LOCKFILE" EXIT; touch $LOCKFILE; /usr/bin/nice -$run_nice /usr/sbin/check_mailscanner >/dev/null 2>&1; exit 0) Everytime MailScanner stops working the same "child dying of old age" message appears. Because of the mailscanner process seems to be still alive (even if it's not but still appears in the process list) the mailscanner cronjob isn't able to restart it. Regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
