Problem on 4.10-1

[Gavin Nelmes-Crocker]

Thanks to a lightening quick response from Julian - problem solved error in
one of the rules files - as well as sysadmin forgetting where to look for
MailScanner error logging.

Thanks again - now just DNS to propagate and then I get to see if everything
works or if I spend all night working again - ****** hackers

Gavin
ps if anyone on this list has a Cobalt RaQ with the SHP patch on it do the
remove NOW or you will be doing what we have spent the last 24hrs doing and
its not pleasant.  The removal patch is on the Sun web site anything it
might do thats not been discovered yet is nothing compared to the script
kiddie hack that the patch left in, you have been warned...!

> At 15:50 08/12/2002, you wrote:
> >I'm just installing this on a virgin Cobalt RaQ - (had all the other
> >versions working fine)
> >
> >basically everything is set up but when I go to start up
> Mailscanner I get
> >an error
> >
> >         Aborting due to syntax errors. at
> >/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Config.pm line 1144
> >
> >looking at that line doesn't give me many clues either
> >
> >         MailScanner::Log::DieLog("Aborting due to syntax errors.") if
> > $errors;
> >
> >Does anyone have any ideas - if so I'd be very grateful if you would also
> >copy gavin at web-hoster.co.uk as the subscribed email address is on the box
> >I'm working on which is down along with the DNS nothing to do with
> >MailScanner more that we were hacked last night which has brought forward
> >the new mailserver quicker than I was planning.
>
> The syntax error is in your MailScanner.conf file. I have improved the
> error message for 4.11 to make it clearer where the error is. Check your
> maillog and you will find the cause of the error. The most likely is that
> either you have
>          PID Dir
> instead of the new
>          PID File
> or else you haven't put in the "Language Strings" setting.