Exim support in 4.10-1

Stephen Lee splee at PLEXIO.COM
Wed Dec 4 16:05:34 GMT 2002


On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 07:29, Julian Field wrote:
> I will change it for the next version if other people don't want the file
> locking either. In the mean time, if you really don't want it doing any
> file locking of its configuration files, simply comment out all the "flock"
> calls in Config.pm.

After changing all files in /etc/MailScanner to exim.exim MS starts and
works fine now. It's interesting that syslog output shows the following:

Dec  4 08:42:11 QCTO MailScanner[7500]: MailScanner
Dec  4 08:42:11 QCTO MailScanner[7500]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.10-1 starting...
Dec  4 08:42:11 QCTO MailScanner[7500]: Using locktype = posix
Dec  4 08:42:11 QCTO MailScanner[7500]: Creating hardcoded struct_flock
subroutine for linux (Linux-type)
Dec  4 08:42:21 QCTO MailScanner[7501]: MailScanner
Dec  4 08:42:21 QCTO MailScanner[7501]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.10-1 starting...
Dec  4 08:42:21 QCTO MailScanner[7501]: Using locktype = posix
Dec  4 08:42:21 QCTO MailScanner[7501]: Creating hardcoded struct_flock
subroutine for linux (Linux-type)
Dec  4 08:42:31 QCTO MailScanner[7502]: MailScanner
Dec  4 08:42:31 QCTO MailScanner[7502]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.10-1 starting...
Dec  4 08:42:31 QCTO MailScanner[7502]: Using locktype = posix
Dec  4 08:42:31 QCTO MailScanner[7502]: Creating hardcoded struct_flock
subroutine for linux (Linux-type)
Dec  4 08:42:41 QCTO MailScanner[7503]: MailScanner
Dec  4 08:42:41 QCTO MailScanner[7503]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.10-1 starting...
Dec  4 08:42:41 QCTO MailScanner[7503]: Using locktype = posix
Dec  4 08:42:41 QCTO MailScanner[7503]: Creating hardcoded struct_flock
subroutine for linux (Linux-type)

Do each of the struct_flock above correspond to a config file in
/etc/Mailscanner?

Thanks for all your help (and MS of course)!
Stephen



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