<<<No Message Collected>>> [Was Re: SYSERR(root): readqf: cannot open ./df*]

[Spicer, Kevin]

Julian, thanks for your help!  I think I may have tracked down the cause of the problem - I made some changes just before 5pm which so far seem to be working.  I'll need to wait until mid-morning tomorrow to be sure (when theres a decent volume of mail flowing through the server).  I won't post the details now as its a bit involved & I may not be right - but I will post a follow-up tomorrow.

P.S. My fallback plan was to swap in an old server rebuilt with MailScanner 4.10 - and you might be interested to know about a problem I had installing the rpms under Mandrake 9.0...
(apart from the rpm-build and perl-devel dependencies which I had to work out for myself)  The rpms have a dependency on perl-5.800 but mandrake chose to name their perl package perl-5.8.0, thus the installation fails on this dependency.  I simply satisfied myself that I had the necessary packages installed and added --nodeps into the appropriate place in the script.  I suspect theres no easy 'proper' fix, but maybe an argument to the script to try a nodeps installation?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> Sent: 17 December 2002 18:45
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: <<<No Message Collected>>> [Was Re: SYSERR(root): readqf:
> cannot open ./df*]
> 
> 
> At 15:48 17/12/2002, you wrote:
> >I have now managed to prove some of this.  I stopped the 
> mailscanner and
> >just started a sendmail -bd -ODeliveryMode=queueonly
> >-OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in
> >I was able to watch mail queue up, then occaisionally a 
> message would be
> >delivered straight out of the mqueue.in queue.
> 
> Can you try putting the mqueue.in into the sendmail.cf file 
> and then try
> the same thing again? And what happens if /var/spool/mqueue 
> doesn't exist
> at all (just rename it)?
> 
> >I guess the good news is that this is not being caused by mailscanner
> >itself! (Julian apologies for any time you've spent looking for
> >this)  Anyone got any ideas?
> 
> I think there's still a MS-related problem here too, as 
> mentioned in my
> previous post.
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
> MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> 


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